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When deciding on the social desirability of public investment, the cost of a project is sometimes adjusted by a factor known as the Marginal Cost of Public Funds (MCP F ), which captures the cost of raising public funds through distortionary taxation. However, there is no scholarly consensus on...
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unemployment. Our model succeeds in replicating the empirical fact of a downward sloping Phillips curve for low inflation rates and … an upward sloping curve for high inflation rates. The reason is that low inflation rates make saving, as opposed to …, when inflation exceeds a certain threshold, money is too costly to hold, which results in a decrease in output and an …
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This paper studies the issue of whether money contains useful information about future inflation in a panel of nine … developed countries. A low frequency estimate of excess money growth is compared to an estimate of the inflation trend following … the discussion in Woodford (2007). The empirical analysis shows that money contains more information about future CPI-inflation …
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relationship between credit for consumption and inflation. To give an answer to this question, we have performed an econometric …
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The paper examines three aspects of a financial crisis of domestic origin. The first section studies the evolution of a debt-financed consumption boom supported by rising asset prices, leading to a credit crunch and fluctuations in the real economy, and, ultimately, to debt deflation. The next...
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The study evaluates the efficiency of government intervention using a vertical structured model including imperfectly competitive agricultural input markets, the bread grain market, and the imperfectly competitive food industry. To test for policy efficiency the actually observed bread grain...
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Almost all theoretical work on how to calculate the marginal deadweight loss has been done for linear taxes and for variations in linear budget constraints. This is quite surprising since most income tax systems are nonlinear, generating nonlinear budget constraints. Instead of developing the...
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optimal. This is because inflation makes saving for retirement less attractive, such that young agents optimally choose to … increase their consumption at the expense of lower savings. On the other hand, old agents consume less due to the inflation tax …. We show that for low inflation rates, the former effect dominates the latter, such that the Friedman rule is not optimal …
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In the paper, an analogy with length measurement is applied in order to explore the nature of the unit for value measurement, i.e. the unit of account. As the meter is defined as the length traveled by light in vacuum during 1/299 792 458 of a second, the unit of account krona is defined as the...
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We consider standard monetary-policy rules with inflation-rate targets and interest-rate or money-growth instruments …-target equilibria (BTE) with inflation always below target and constant or asymptotically approaching or eventually reaching a below … rate above a lower bound. We construct monetary-policy rules, that preclude BTE, some of which are monotonic in inflation …
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