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budget consolidation, interest rate hikes, or lowering the target inflation rate could prevent a crisis. The most effective … and efficient measure is lowering the perceived inflation target by restoring central bank’s independence, thereby … regaining investor confidence. Loans from international partners would also stabilize Turkey’s currency, inflation, and economy …
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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 fiscal theory states that inflation adjusts so that the real value of government debt equals the present value of … determines the path of expected inflation, while news about the present value of surpluses drives unexpected inflation. I use … fiscal theory to interpret historical episodes, including the rise and fall of inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, the long …
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inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an … inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a conflict between monetary policy and discretionary fiscal policy …
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Many explanations for the decline in real interest rates over the last 30 years point to the role that population aging or rising income inequality plays in increasing the long-run aggregate demand for assets. Notwithstanding the importance of such factors, the starting point of this paper is to...
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The purpose of this short paper is to show that inflation “band” targeting can solve the “time inconsistency” problem … that exists under inflation “point” targeting by setting a relevant target range. Moreover, we show that inflation band … natural levels, by setting the inflation rate within a target range and creating unexpected inflation. 2) It can mitigate …
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This paper analyses the issue of the dynamics of the TARGET2 system balances during the sovereign debt crisis, when some countries registered a decisive inflow of the central bank liquidity and others showed an outflow. The dynamics in the TARGET2 are here explained as being due to a fall in the...
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Union (including the new (2021) monetary policy strategy of the Eurosystem and its implementation amidst the ‘inflation …
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In a floor system of monetary policy implementation, the central bank remunerates bank reserves at or near the market rate of interest. Some observers have expressed concern that operating such a system will have adverse fiscal consequences for the public sector and may even require the...
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The paper scrutinizes the reasons for the European debt crisis, the implications for TARGET2 imbalances and options for surplus liquidity absorption within an asymmetric EMU. It is argued that starting from the turn of the millennium diverging fiscal policy paths and diverging unit labor costs...
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