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Buiter, Willem H. - 1998

This note comments on two central issues for fiscal policy design in the UK, highlighted in the recent Code for Fiscal Stability' proposed by the new Labour government. The first concerns the merits of the so-called golden rule of public sector investment' -- the proposition that, over the...

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Transition Issues for the European Monetary Union

Buiter, Willem H. - 1997

If Stage Three of EMU starts on January 1, 1999, transition issues remain on two time scales. Until July 1, 2002, national currencies and the euro co-exist as legal tender. We argue that intra-EMU currency risk exists in principle during that period, but that no EMU member can be forced out...

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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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Measuring Aspects of Fiscal and Financial Policy

Buiter, Willem H. - 1984

The paper develops a forward-looking comprehensive accounting framework for the public sector.By integrating the public sector budget constraint forward in time the government's present value budget constraint (PVBC) is obtained. In addition to the familiar financial assets and liabilities,...

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The Theory of Optimum Deficits and Debt

Buiter, Willem H. - 1983

The paper surveys a number of neo-classical and neo-Keynesian approcaches to government financial policy. After reviewing the very restrictive conditions under which financial policy is just a veil without real consequences, non-neutral financial policy in neo-classical models is analyzed. At...

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