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This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made …-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of convertibility in 1929. As elsewhere, fiscal policy in Argentina was conservative, and …
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There are two ways to eliminate this distortion toward successful fiscal restoration. One of them is to make the monetary authority more conservative than society in the sense that the price stability weight of monetary authority is higher than that of society. The other way of eliminating the...
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constraints. The model is calibrated to Argentina and the results conform to robust empirical evidence. An event study for the …
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This paper provides an overview of the major economic events in Argentina from the adoption of the convertibility plan … currency board and capital flows, and the inescapable link between fiscal and monetary policy. Argentina inadvertently entered … late 1990s, when Argentina went into recession, it required some sort of stimulus -- either a loosening of monetary policy …
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This paper examines Argentina's currency crises from 1970 to 2001, with particular attention to the role of domestic …
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As a result of the BoJ's large-scale asset purchases, the consolidated Japanese government borrows mostly at the floating rate from households and invests in longer-duration risky assets to earn an extra 3% of GDP. We quantify the impact of Japan's low-rate policies on its government and...
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Monetary and fiscal policies require coordination to achieve desired macroeconomic outcomes. The literature since Leeper (1991) has focused on two regimes: monetary dominance and fiscal dominance. In both cases, one policy is active while the other is passive and accommodates the former. We...
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In this paper, we study Ramsey-optimal fiscal and monetary policy in a medium-scale model of the U.S.\ business cycle. The model features a rich array of real and nominal rigidities that have been identified in the recent empirical literature as salient in explaining observed aggregate...
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