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model presents a 'price rule' for government spending that ensures that the ELR is not a source of inflation. Indeed, the … ; Income Transfers ; Investment Subsidies ; Direct Job Creation ; Employer of Last Resort ; Inflation ; Income Distribution …
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chartalist, respectively), the rate of wage inflation depends on either unemployment or the wage-setting policies of the … inflation affects aggregate demand through its impact on the value of assets and debts. Bank rates depend on an endogenous …
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inventory management techniques. Drawing from Post-Keynesian and structuralist theories of inflation, this paper uses a vector …Several explanations of the "great inflation moderation" (1982-2006) have been put forth, the most popular being that … inflation was tamed due to good monetary policy, good luck (exogenous shocks such as oil prices), or structural changes such as …
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The implementation of economic reforms under new economic policies in India was associated with a paradigmatic shift in monetary and fiscal policy. While monetary policies were solely aimed at "price stability" in the neoliberal regime, fiscal policies were characterized by the objective of...
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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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Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political...
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Using the model proposed in Krugman and Taylor's "Contractionary effects of devaluation" (1978), we examine what macroeconomic effects of shocks to foreign prices. We show that these shocks can be contractionary for two reasons: (i) because they imply a loss of income if an economy has a trade...
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The post-pandemic surge in inflation was accompanied by a surge in the corporate share of profits. As a result, several … economists and policy makers have given to it names such as "profit-led inflation" or "sellers' inflation." The present paper … discusses the extent to which profit-led inflation, as an explanation for the recent surge in inflation, is compatible with what …
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Reserve does not target inflation or react to inflation signals.ʺ Rather, the Fed reacts to the very realʺ signal sent by … the Federal Reserve largely ceased reacting to inflation or high unemployment, but continued to react when unemployment … for the effects of inflation and unemployment. -- Personal Income ; Wage Level ; Wage Differentials ; Price Level …
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This paper is focused on Modern Monetary Theory's (MMT) treatment of inflation from an open economy perspective. It … analyzes how the inflation process is explained within the MMT framework and provides empirical evidence in support of this … facing an inflation-unemployment trade-off. …
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