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The fiscal theory of the price level says that the price level can be made determinate if the government uses fiscal policies such that government liabilities explode unless the price in the first period is at the "right" level. The policy implications are disturbing, as they call for rather...
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In this paper, we study maximizing long-run economic growth trade-off in monetary and fiscal policies in an endogenous growth model with transaction costs. We show that both monetary and fiscal policies are subject to threshold effects, a result that gives account of a number of recent empirical...
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targets and fiscal orthodoxy in a depressed economy is emphasized, and the outlines of a Post Keynesian alternative policy are …
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Based on panel data of 58 countries, of which 22 Inflation Targeters and 36 non Inflation Targeters, over the period 1980-2003, this paper highlights the effect of Inflation Targeting – IT- on Fiscal Discipline –FD-. We make four contributions to the literature. Firstly, by applying the 2SLS...
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The paper discusses the possible economic consequences of the financial crisis from a (Post)Keynesian point of view. It examines the forthcoming depressive mechanisms, including the orthodox reactions of monetary and fiscal authorities, in the vein of those inferred in Europe by the mandate of...
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This paper investigates the relevance of the No-Ponzi game condition for public debt (i.e. the public debt growth rate has to be lower than the real interest rate, a necessary assumption for Ricardian equivalence) and of the transversality condition for the GDP growth rate (i.e. the GDP growth...
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surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that …
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Since the inception of economic reforms, China in 1978 and Vietnam in 1986, both countries have become successful … examples of transition to a market economy. Over their courses of reform, attracting substantial and rising amounts of inward … between China and Vietnam?" through a comparative study of the FDI determinants. In other words, this paper revisits the …
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and become over- or underemployed. We estimate and explain this gap in a stochastic frontier framework for rural Vietnam …
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This paper shows the evolution of poverty in Vietnam during the deepening of trade liberalization and examines the … hindered in the near future, as Vietnam is now in the process of decreasing its import protection. …
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