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Is monetary financing inflationary? : a case study of the Canadian economy, 1935 - 75
Ryan-Collins, Josh - 2015
Historically high levels of private and public debt coupled with already very low short-term interest rates appear to limit the options for stimulative monetary policy in many advanced economies today. One option that has not yet been considered is monetary financing by central banks to boost...
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MMT and policy assignment in an open economy context : simplicity is useful, oversimpliflflication not so much
Razmi, Arslan - 2022
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) has recently received significant at- tention in academic and policy circles. Critics question the sustainability of MMT-prescribed approaches to fiscal and monetary policy, especially over extended periods of time, in the presence of international financial markets,...
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Seven replies to the critiques of Modern Money Theory
Tymoigne, Éric - 2021
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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The role of money in monetary policy at the lower bound
Billi, Roberto M.; Söderström, Ulf; Walsh, Carl E. - 2020
In light of the current low-interest-rate environment, we reconsider the merit of a money growth target (MGT) relative to a conventional in ation targeting (IT) regime, and to the notion of price level targeting (PLT). Through the lens of a New Keynesian model, and accounting for a zero lower...
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Fiscal policy and inflation : understanding the role of expectations in Mexico
López-Martín, Bernabé; Ramírez de Aguilar, Alberto; … - 2018
We exploit a hidden Markov model where inflation is determined by government deficits financed through money creation and/or by destabilizing expectations dynamics (expectations can potentially divorce inflation from fundamentals). The baseline model, proposed by Sargent et al. (2009), is used...
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Fiscal policy and inflation : understanding the role of expectations in Mexico
Lopez-Martin, Bernabe; Ramírez de Aguilar, Alberto; … - 2018
This paper estimates a hidden Markov model where inflation is determined by government deficits financed through money creation and by expectations dynamics. The baseline model, proposed by Sargent et al. (2009) is able to distinguish between causes and remedies of hyperinflation, such as...
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Generalizing Determinacy under Monetary and Fiscal Policy Switches : The Case of the Zero Lower Bound
Cho, Seonghoon - 2020
In a fixed-regime setting, it is known since Leeper (1991) that both monetary dominance (mix of active monetary and passive fiscal policies) and fiscal dominance (mix of active fiscal and passive monetary policy) regimes yield a determinate unique equilibrium. This paper shows that in a...
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The role of fiscal policy : a survey of recent empirical findings
Le, Vo Phuong Mai; Meenagh, David; Minford, Patrick - 2023
DSGE models based on New Keynesian principles, which have been extended to allow for banking, the zero lower bound on interest rates (ZLB), and varying price duration, can account well for recent macroeconomic behavior across a variety of economies. These models Önd that active Öscal policy...
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Covid-19 : has the time come for mainstream macroeconomics to rehabilitate money printing?
Arquié, Axelle; Héricourt, Jérôme; Tripier, Fabien - 2020
appropriate funding. Long rejected by mainstream macroeconomics due to its possible inflationary consequences, monetization is … government ever reimbursing the central bank -, monetization appears as an attractive solution in a context where the burden of … Covid-19 shock. This policy brief offers some theoretical insights into this debate opposing monetization and issuance of …
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The welfare implications of fiscal dominance
De Resende, Carlos; Rebei, Nooman - 2008
This paper studies the interdependence between fiscal and monetary policy in a DSGE model with sticky prices and non-zero trend inflation. We characterize the fiscal and monetary policies by a rule whereby a given fraction k of the government debt must be backed by the discounted value of...
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