This paper quantitatively assesses the effects of inflation shocks on the public debt-to-GDP ratio in 19 advanced … impulse responses by local projections both suggest that a 1 percentage point shock to inflation rate reduces the debt … higher inflation, even if accompanied by some financial repression, could reduce public debt burden only marginally in many …

). Fiscal dominance has always been a pressing problem as it can contribute to inflation and macroeconomic instability, and … and inflation …

predictions of a forward-looking model of inflation. Wealth effects of public debt could also affect inflation, as posited by the … fiscal theory of the price level, but we do not find supportive evidence. The results suggest that the risk of a debt-inflation … inflation …

equilibrium with no inflation and no default exists. However, highly-indebted countries are more likely to default once they join …

We analyse optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a New-Keynesian model with public debt and inflation persistence … striking result is not true with high degrees of inflation persistence. Secondly, we show that optimal fiscal policy is more … active under discretion than commitment at all degrees of inflation persistence and all levels of debt …

This paper examines the welfare effects of mitigating the costs of inflation. In a simple model where money reduces … transaction costs, a fall in the costs of inflation is equivalent to financial innovation. This can be caused by paying interest … on deposits, indexing money, or “dollarizing.” Results indicate that financial innovation raises welfare in low inflation …