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institutional conditions of its implementation. Kenya is a particularly interesting case as it is characterized by a rather long … prices and prices volatility are jointly estimated, using monthly data over the 1994-2009 period in Kenya. …
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seigniorage. Building on a simple theoretical model where governments target inflation and aim at reducing deforestation while …
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Most of countries covered by natural forests are developing countries, with limited ability to levy taxes and restrained access to international credit markets; consequently, they are amenable to draw heavily on two sources of government financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues....
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central banks' monetary policy must be credible if the authorities want to curb inflation. A second view is that central banks … set their monetary policy by using all the information relevant for inflation and output projections. In Europe, a … controversy has emerged about the role of monetary aggregates as useful indicators of future inflation and output. On one hand …
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Based on panel data of 58 countries, of which 22 Inflation Targeters and 36 non Inflation Targeters, over the period … 1980-2003, this paper highlights the effect of Inflation Targeting – IT- on Fiscal Discipline –FD-. We make four …
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A few years after the publication of The General Theory, a number of economists began to present Keynes's model, identified with IS-LM, as a particular case of the Walrasian model. This view of IS-LM has often been rationalized by a basic syllogism: IS-LM was invented by John Hicks, Hicks was a...
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Some recent evidence on government finance statistics of European countries suggests that countries with public debt issues also show a low tax revenue-GDP ratio. In this paper we develop a small open economy model of endogenous growth in which the engine of growth is public spending. We assume...
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In this article, we focus on current account dynamics in large open economies characterized by debt-constrained heterogeneous agents and endogenous monetary policies. We incorporate three key features that have bulked large in the New Open Macroeconomics literature : i) home bias in trade, ii)...
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We examine whether the "fear" of globalisation can be rationalised by economic theory. To do so, we depart from the standard AD/AS (partial) equilibrium model where the coordinational role of the Auctioneer is substituted by an implementation device based on learning (Guesnerie, 1992). By...
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inflation, both as an objective and as an intermediate instrument. We want to show that other variables like employment can be … that they can be function of employment only, which then dominates inflation for use in the policy rule. …
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