Deficit financing seems to present a positive inflationary impact on developing economies particularly Nigeria. When there is a budget deficit, government finds ways of financing the deficit through borrowing from commercial and merchant banks or from the non-banking public and through the issue...

This study, in Italian language, examines the quarterly evolution of Italy's sovereign debt, its stock of government bonds, official reserves, GDP and balance of trade, inflation and unemployment. Please see also: Mazziero, Maurizio, 2010: Un Altro Anno a Debito per l'Italia (2010: Another Year...

Questo Quaderno di Ricerca pone sotto osservazione i dati economici italiani, esaminando l'evoluzione trimestrale del debito pubblico, dello stock di Titoli di Stato, delle Riserve ufficiali, della crescita del Pil, dell'inflazione e della disoccupazione.This study, in Italian language, examines...

Research into the state of the Italian economy based on official economic data; the current Sovereign Debt, Official Reserves, GDP, Inflation and Unemployment situation is presented and and compared with the past. Please see also: Mazziero, Maurizio, Baggiani, Leonardo, Fait, Silvano and Lawford,...

The paper examines the role of fiscal and monetary policy on the dynamics of monetary expansion in a macroeconomy. Its microeconomic structure defined by producers with neoclassical production functions, heterogeneous OLG consumers, and a stationary fiscal and monetary policy induces a...

We explore the dynamics of inflation, inflation expectations, and seigniorage-financed fiscal deficits in Mexico. To do so, we estimate the model in Sargent, Williams, and Zha (2009) using Mexican CPI inflation data. This model features dual expected inflation equilibriums and regime switching...

This paper proposes a tractable framework to analyze fiscal space and the dynamics of government debt, with a possibly binding zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint. Without the ZLB, a greater primary deficit unambiguously raises debt. However, debt need not explode: When R G – φ, where φ is...

We examine the relationship between inflation and fiscal sustainability with a two-step approach. In the first step, we estimate to estimate a country-specific time-varying measure of fiscal sustainability using the fiscal reaction function. This function captures the response of the primary...

Mazziero, Maurizio, Baggiani, Leonardo, Fait, Silvano and Lawford, Andrew, Italia 2011: Un Anno Di Sofferenza (Italy 2011: A Year of Sufferance) (February 18, 2012). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2007513 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2007513 Mazziero, Maurizio, Italia 3 Trim...