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measures of arginal cost as the relevant determinant of inflation, as the theory suggests, instead of an ad-hoc output gap …
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fully operational. A second relevant body of theory is that pertaining to currency crises. Formal models clarify various … recently- developed fiscal theory of price level determination, which if valid would have major implications for monetary …-fiscal arrangements in currency unions. This theory does not contend that fiscal behavior drives an accommodative monetary authority, but …
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mechanism follows from our theory that when the profit rate is above a normal-target rate, competitive forces operate to lower … as a strategy to improve profitability. The notion of "correlated strategy" is adopted from game theory. The mechanism …-priori notions of positive association between inflation rates and profit rates, our theory proposes a critical test of a negative …
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There is a long-standing debate as to whether the Fisher effect operated during the classical gold standard period. We break new ground on this question by developing a market-based measure of general inflation expectations during the gold standard. Since the gold-silver price ratio was widely...
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The fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) has attracted much attention but disagreement remains concerning its … appeared to provide a theory whose implications differ greatly from conventional monetary analysis; accordingly we review …
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This paper studies the relationship between inflation, output, money and interest rates in the euro area, using data spanning 1980 2000. The P* model is shown to have considerable empirical support. Thus, the price gap' or, equivalently, the real money gap' (the gap between current real balances...
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Financial innovation challenges the foundations of monetary theory, and standard monetary theory has not been very … U.S. inflation using a framework that ignores monetary frictions? The fiscal theory of the price level allows us to … nominal government debt with the present value of surpluses. I describe the theory, and I argue that it is a return to pre …
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This paper proposes a theory of supply shocks, or shifts in the short-run Phillips curve, based on relative …
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-fold increase in the price level in most industrialized nations. A full answer will require a better theory of the political process …
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We develop a tractable sticky price model in which the fraction of price changes evolves endogenously over time and, consistent with the evidence, increases with inflation. Because we assume that firms sell multiple products and choose how many, but not which, prices to adjust in any given...
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