Akitoby, Bernardin; Komatsuzaki, Takuji; Binder, Ariel - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of low or high inflation on the public debt-to-GDP ratio in the G-7 countries. Our … simulations suggest that if inflation were to fall to zero for five years, the average net debt-to-GDP ratio would increase by … about 5 percentage points over the next five years. In contrast, raising inflation to 6 percent for the next five years …