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the effects of government spending on output in advanced and developing countries. Identifying government-spending shocks …
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effect of government spending on output. Following a popular assumption that military spending is unlikely to respond to … output at business-cycle frequencies - and exploiting variation in military spending of a significantly larger magnitude than … economies and in countries with a fixed exchange rate. The output response to government spending persists for about two to …
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We propose a novel identification design to estimate the causal effects of systematic monetary policy on the propagation of macroeconomic shocks. The design combines (i) a time-varying measure of systematic monetary policy based on the historical composition of hawks and doves in the Federal...
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This paper scrutinizes the debate of Keynes and Hayek concerning the adequate re- sponse to economic crises from a historical perspective. In a first step the develop- ment of the Keynesian economic theory, its ascent during the Great Depression and its use during financially sound times is...
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This paper has two main objectives. The first is to propose a policy architecture that can prevent a very high public debt from resulting in a high tax burden, a government default, or inflation. The second objective is to show that government deficits do not face a financing problem. After...
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The contribution by the Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek to monetary theory stimulates a far-reaching debate on the role of the government in monetary management and the effects of alternative policies in regulating the issuance of money. Since the early 1930s Hayek had been concerned...
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shocks. Fluctuations in output growth are mainly driven by productivity shocks for a lower share and by price markup shocks …
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This paper briefly summarizes the orthodox approach to banking, finance, and money, and then points the way toward an alternative based on socioeconomics. It argues that the alternative approach is better fitted to not only the historical record, but also sheds more light on the nature of money...
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In the present paper, we will construct three comparable 'toy models' to evaluate the alternative uses of functional finance from Lerner, MMT, and the Sraffians. First, we will argue that the general functional finance framework can be separated from the specific views of Lerner on how the...
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interest rate, in an environment characterized by heterogenous and endogenously time-varying private-sector output and … interventions have both a direct effect on output and inflation (via aggregate demand formation) and an indirect effect on these …
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