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can give rise to persistent liquidity trap episodes. Unlike in the case of fundamental-driven liquidity traps, there is no …-driven liquidity traps. Raising the in ation target or appointing an in ation-conservative central banker improves in ation outcomes … sufficiently less concerned with government spending stabilization than society can eliminate expectations-driven liquidity traps …
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Does an inflation conservative central bank à la Rogoff (1985) remain desirable in a setting with endogenous fiscal policy? To provide an answer we study monetary and fiscal policy games without commitment in a dynamic stochastic sticky price economy with monopolistic distortions. Monetary...
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This paper develops a small New Keynesian model with capital accumulation and government debt dynamics. The paper discusses the design of simple monetary and fiscal policy rules consistent with determinate equilibrium dynamics in the absence of Ricardian equivalence. Under this assumption,...
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a liquidity trap? To provide an answer, we employ a small stochastic New Keynesian model with a zero bound on nominal …-term nominal interest rate and debt-financed government spending. The optimal policy response to a liquidity trap critically … sector expectations that helps to dampen the fall in output and inflation at the outset of the liquidity trap. …
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Regarding a prospective reform of the European Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) it seems rather consensual that a simplified framework should take account of the prevailing macroeconomic context and enhance the balancing of sustainability and stabilisation considerations. This paper provides...
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This paper attempts to gauge the effects of various fiscal and monetary policy rules on macroeconomic outcomes in the euro area. It consists of two major parts – a historical assessment and an assessment based on an extended scenario until 2030 – and it builds on the ECB-BASE –a...
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How is the price level determined in a monetary union when the common monetary policy pegs the nominal interest rate? How are the price levels in the member countries determined? We extend the fiscal theory of the price level to the case of a heterogenous monetary union. Price level determinacy...
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