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to support the standard objection to such policies: that they will lead to uncontrollable inflation. Theoretical models … support for a relationship between monetary financing and inflation. The findings lend support to recent calls for explicit …
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the Barro-Ricardo equivalence, the cause of inflation, and the role of monetary policy. FF, throwing a different light on … growth, deflation, and weak public finances. …
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a more symmetric policy role for central banks, with equal weight on fighting inflation and preventing depressions …
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One of the main contributions of Modern Money Theory (MMT) has been to explain why monetarily sovereign governments have a very flexible policy space that is unencumbered by hard financial constraints. Through a detailed analysis of the institutions and practices surrounding the fiscal and...
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In this paper we analyze options for the European Central Bank (ECB) to achieve its single mandate of price stability. Viable options for price stability are described, analyzed, and tabulated with regard to both short- and long-term stability and volatility. We introduce an additional tool for...
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the widely held interpretation of the ECB as an inflation targeter-and a rather soft one, too-it is argued that the key … and inflation persistence that owes to the ECB's failure to internalize the euro area's fiscal regime. This raises the … question as to whether inflation targeting would have led to better results, or could do so in future. Key words: Monetary …
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regard to managing the euro crisis, preventing protracted stagnation, and containing deflation threats. The bank remains …
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In this paper the euro crisis is interpreted as the latest episode in the crisis of finance-dominated capitalism. For 11 initial Euro area countries, the major features of finance-dominated capitalism are analyzed; specifically, the increasing inequality of income distribution and the rising...
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that reserve-driven inflation might cause are uncertain. It is even possible today to find articles in both scholarly … toward prolonged deflation is the more probable outcome. -- excess reserves ; Federal Reserve ; Fed ; European Central Bank …
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