tightening in response to macroprudential concerns. I also find that policy is acyclical to foreign debt but is countercyclical …

Financial repression lowers the return on government debt and contributes, all else equal, towards its liquidation …. However, its full effect on the debt-to-GDP ratio hinges on how repression impacts the economy at large because it alters … model-based counterfactual shows that GDP would have been 5 percent lower, and the debt-to-GDP ratio 20 percentage points …

Financial repression lowers the return on government debt and contributes, all else equal, towards its liquidation …. However, its full effect on the debt-to-GDP ratio hinges on how repression impacts the economy at large because it alters … model-based counterfactual shows that GDP would have been 5 percent lower, and the debt-to-GDP ratio 20 percentage points …

Financial repression lowers the return on government debt and contributes, all else equal, towards its liquidation …. However, its full effect on the debt-to-GDP ratio hinges on how repression impacts the economy at large because it alters … model-based counterfactual shows that GDP would have been 5 percent lower, and the debt-to-GDP ratio 20 percentage points …

Financial repression lowers the return on government debt and contributes, all else equal, towards its liquidation …. However, its full effect on the debt-to-GDP ratio hinges on how repression impacts the economy at large because it alters … model-based counterfactual shows that GDP would have been 5 percent lower, and the debt-to-GDP ratio 20 percentage points …

spending are top priorities in Washington. A now-popular target for reform is regulation, which even President Obama claims to … budget. That said, while regulation imposes costs, regulation may also have social benefits, and this fact should be …