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This paper estimates a fiscal reaction function (FRF) framework for euro area countries to test for the impact of changes in inflation on fiscal policy. We find evidence of non-linear short-term effects of HICP inflation on the primary balance after controlling for other relevant factors. Over...
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We study optimal monetary policy design in a simple model that deviates from the linear-quadratic paradigm and provides a rationale for the practice of inflation zone targeting. We show that the presence of either zone-quadratic preferences or a zone-linear relationship between inflation and...
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and output growth. We also find that MPC size influences the success of monetary targeting regimes. In contrast, there is …
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While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone's southern countries and France unresolved. The paper compares price inflation before the crisis with the...
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. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyze the effects on inflation …
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This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance … seigniorage finance. This leads to an increase in inflation which, in turn, reduces capital accumulation and growth. At the …
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In most monetary models of economic growth, higher long-run inflation is associated with a decline in the growth rate …. We consider three types of endogenous growth models: 1) the AK-model, 2) the Lucas (1990) supply-side model, and 3) the … inflation results in lower growth and employment in all three models, while, in the cash-credit good economy of Dotsey and …
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exchange rate stability have a better explanatory power than the de jure measures in the inflation and growth equations. For … well as a highly significant positive impact of exchange stability on real growth. When sub-dividing the period into a high … stability with higher real growth remains quite robust. Thus our findings can be interpreted to mean that membership of the CEE …
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