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Staggered Wage Setting without Money Illusion : Variations on a Theme of Taylor

Buiter, Willem H. - 1980

's assumption that wage bargainers are influenced by relative money wages rather than relative real wages. In Taylor's model money … that wage bargainers are influenced by relative real wages, which we consider somewhat more plausible, has some interesting …

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Capital Mobility, Fiscal Policy and Growth under Self-Financing of Human Capital Formation

Buiter, Willem H. - 1995

This paper considers the effects of fiscal and financial policy on economic growth in open and closed economies, when human capital formation by young households is constrained by the illiquidity of human wealth. Both endogenous and exogenous growth versions of the basic OLG model are analyzed....

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Permanent International Productivity Growth Differentials in an Integrated Global Economy

Buiter, Willem H. - 1992

The paper analyzes the role of differences in household behavior as a source of persistent and even permanent differences between national or regional productivity growth rates, when there are constant static returns to scale in production and costless international diffusion of technology. A...

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Public Debt in the USA : How Much, How Bad and Who Pays?

Buiter, Willem H. - 1993

The USA is in the middle of the pack of industrial countries as regards the public debt-GOP and public deficit …

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The Fallacy of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level

Buiter, Willem H. - 1999

or unsound argument'. The 'fiscal theory of the price level', recently re-developed by Woodford, Cochrane, Sims and … proponents of the fiscal theory of the price level do not accept the fundamental proposition that the government's intertemporal …. Policy conclusions could be drawn from the fiscal theory of the price level that would be harmful if they influenced the …

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Liquidity Traps : How to Avoid Them and How to Escape Them

Buiter, Willem H. - 1999

The paper considers ways of avoiding a liquidity trap and ways of getting out of one. Unless lower short nominal interest rates are associated with significantly lower interest volatility, a lower average rate of inflation, which will be associated with lower expected nominal interest rates,...

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Fiscal Prerequisites for a Viable Managed Exchange Rate Regime : A Non-technical Eclectic Introduction

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

borrowing. There is not yet any "deep structural" theory justifying the (exogenous) lower bounds on the stock of foreign … exchange reserves characteristic of the collapsing exchange rate literature. Absent such a theory of "international liquidity …

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Death, Population Growth, Productivity Growth and Debt Neutrality

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

Debt neutrality is said to occur if, given a program for public spending on current goods and services over time, the real equilibrium of the economy (private consumption, investment, relative prices, etc.) is independent of the pattern of government borrowing and lump-sum taxation over time....

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Structural and Stabilization Aspects of Fiscal and Financial Policy in the Dependent Economy

Buiter, Willem H. - 1986

The paper considers the response of a small, open dependent economy to a variety of fiscal and financial shocks as well as the influence of alternative budget balancing rules on the response of the system to such external shocks as a change in the world interest rate. The approach allows for...

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Fiscal policy in open, interdependent economies

Buiter, Willem H. - 1984

The paper studies the effects of alternative financing policies in the open economy.There is a non-trivial role for financial policy because of the failure of first-order debt neutrality due to uncertain private lifetimes. Both the single-country case and the interdependent two-country case are...

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