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uncertainty about the composition or timing of a stabilization. Under full certainty, inflation may rise, fall, or remain constant … there is no simple correlation between changes in the budget deficit and inflation. With uncertainty about the timing OF a … stabilization, the inflation rate will most likely exhibit fluctuations and may overshoot its steady state value, even when real …
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the primary deficit with future values of inflation, interest rates, GDP and narrow money growth and changes in the … through adjustments in the primary deficit (80-100%), with less substantial roles being played by inflation (0-10%) and GDP … growth (0-20%). Focusing on the relation between fiscal imbalances and inflation suggests extremely modest interactions. This …
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After the economic reforms that followed the National Revolution of the 1950s, Bolivia seemed positioned for sustained growth. Indeed, it achieved unprecedented growth from 1960 to 1977. The rapid accumulation of debt due to persistent deficits and a fixed exchange rate policy during the 1970s...
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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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common monetary authority chooses inflation for the union, also without commitment. We first describe the existence of a … wisdom that all countries should prefer a union with low-debt members, as such a union can credibly deliver low inflation …
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We develop the theory of price-level determination in a range of models using both ad hoc policy rules and jointly optimal monetary and fiscal policies and discuss empirical issues that arise when trying to identify monetary-fiscal regime. The article concludes with directions in which...
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collapse of the Bretton Woods system between 1971 and 1973 was rising U.S. inflation since 1965. It was driven in turn by … imports and a ninety day wage price freeze—was that U.S. inflation, driven by macro policies, was the main problem facing the … Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur F. Burns, Nixon adopted wage and price controls to mask the inflation, hence punting the …
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JamesTobin, relies on increasing the rate of inflation and making money less attractive relative to real capital. In Tobin …. This paper will examine ways of increasing capital intensity without raising the rate of inflation. The analysis will also … show why, contrary to Tobin's conclusion, a higher rate of inflation may not succeed in increasing investors' willingness …
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. Inflation may be positive throughout, so the absence of deflation is not evidence against a liquidity trap. Output, on the other …
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