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We review the fiscal theory of the price level. We place special emphasis on the theory's implications for the …
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We demonstrate that the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL) cannot be used to determine the price level uniquely in …
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The fiscal theory says that the price level is determined by the ratio of nominal debt to the present value of real … primary surpluses. I analyze long-term debt and optimal policy in the fiscal theory. I find that the maturity structure of the …
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produce the quantity theory of money and the fiscal theory of the price level …
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This paper studies how household inequality shapes the effects of the zero lower bound (ZLB) on nominal interest rates on aggregate dynamics. To do so, we consider a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian (HANK) model with an occasionally binding ZLB and solve for its fully non-linear stochastic...
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This paper incorporates a bubble term in the standard FTPL equation to explain why countries with persistently negative primary surpluses can have a positively valued currency and low inflation. It also provides an example with closed-form solutions in which idiosyncratic risk on capital returns...
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The paper presents the fiscal theory of the price level in a variety of models, including endowment economies with lump …-sum taxes and production economies with proportional income taxes. We offer a microeconomic perspective on the fiscal theory by … level. Under certain assumptions on monetary and fiscal behavior, the revaluation effect reflects the fiscal theory …
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This paper presents a prototype model for development of the fiscal theory of the price level.' In this simple setting …, the fiscal theory's distinctiveness relies upon adoption of a bubble solution, rather than the rational …
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A new theory of price determination suggests that if primary surpluses are independent of the level of debt, the price …
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The recently-developed fiscal theory of price level determination contends that there is an important class of policy …
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