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paper, I assess the implications of the zero lower bound in a DSGE model with financial frictions. The analysis shows that … as the management of expectations by the central bank or a counter-cyclical fiscal stimulus, may help recover the economy …
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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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inflation in order to stabilize the expectations of households, firms and innovators. Endogenous growth provides a self … debt-stabilizing inflation when current fiscal deficits are not backed by future fiscal surpluses. Because growth creates … unique stable equilibrium, provided that the policy permits r−g to fall with inflation. …
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Modern monetary theory (MMT) has grown in popularity in recent years. Several central bankers have made passing comments about it. However, the publication of two papers by Drumetz/Pfister of the Banque de France in 2021 represents the first attempt at a more systematic assessment of MMT by two...
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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 … industrialization. An institutional case study of the period, complemented by a general-to-specific econometric analysis, finds no … support for a relationship between monetary financing and inflation. The findings lend support to recent calls for explicit …
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minimizing the variance of inflation as the policy objective. Following current developments in the theory of fiscal … monetary policies. The responses of inflation to various structural disturbances in the constant money growth rate …
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quasi-fiscal deficit through the use of the inflation tax but as inflation increases money demand drops and there is a limit … high inflation can arise even if money demand is perfectly inelastic with respect to inflation and the real value of … interest payments is relatively low. The key insight is that if expected inflation is a function of the current state of the …
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This paper analyses the macroeconomic effects of a protracted period of low and falling inflation rates when monetary … terms (debt-deflation channel). In this scenario, even cost-push shocks that in normal circumstances would reduce inflation …
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households. Then, in contrast to the active monetary and passive fiscal policy regime, inflation moves oppositely from the … inflation target and a stronger reaction of interest rates to inflation increases the response of inflation to shocks. Moreover …, a higher level of public debt increases the response of inflation while a weaker reaction of taxes to debt decreases the …
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