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monetary growth. Similarly, the main interplay between temporary government spending and inflation occurred during the periods …
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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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Why did the country that borrowed the most industrialize first? Earlier research has viewed the explosion of debt in 18th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain's borrowing boom was beneficial. The massive issuance...
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public finances. We show that when the ECB misses its inflation target this has large heterogeneous fiscal consequences for … missing their inflation targets. They are also sizeable …
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We study cointegrating relationships among fiscal variables and output and use them to introduce a new measure of the government's fiscal position. In the US since World War II, we find that the primary surplus-GDP ratio and the government debt-GDP ratio are nonstationary, which invalidates...
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How far can shoe-leather go in explaining the welfare cost of inflation? Using a unique set of microeconomic data on … welfare cost of inflation analogous to Bailey's triangle, but based on a rigorous microeconomic framework. The welfare cost of … inflation varies considerably within the population, but never turns out to be very large (about 0.1 percent of consumption or …
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formation and inflation in a number of small, classical macroeconomic models. This amounts to reworking some of the government … crowding-out pressure it represents. A better measure would be the inflation-and-real-growth-corrected, cyclically adjusted …-Wallace "paradox" - in the variable velocity model ,lower monetary growth now may mean higher inflation now and in the future -has its …
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, positive government budget deficit can be maintained permanently and without inflation if it is financed by the issue of bonds …
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Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the … crisis in the early 1980s. We show that the high-inflation period (1960-1994) was characterized by a combination of fiscal … deficits, passive monetary policy, and constraints on debt financing. The transition to the low-inflation period (1995 …
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, we document several potential fiscal dominance effects during 2000-2017 under Inflation Targeting (IT), and non …
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