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108.6 percent. Inflation reduced this ratio about 40 percent within a decade. Yet there are some important differences … inflate. It suggests that when economic growth is stalled, the U.S. debt overhang may trigger an increase in inflation of … about 5 percent for several years. This additional inflation would significantly reduce the debt ratio, even with some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287762
108.6 percent. Inflation reduced this ratio about 40 percent within a decade. Yet there are some important differences … inflate. It suggests that when economic growth is stalled, the U.S. debt overhang may trigger an increase in inflation of … about 5 percent for several years. This additional inflation would significantly reduce the debt ratio, even with some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288128
108.6 percent. Inflation reduced this ratio about 40 percent within a decade. Yet there are some important differences … inflate. It suggests that when economic growth is stalled, the U.S. debt overhang may trigger an increase in inflation of … about 5 percent for several years. This additional inflation would significantly reduce the debt ratio, even with some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003943689
108.6 percent. Inflation reduced this ratio about 40 percent within a decade. Yet there are some important differences … inflate. It suggests that when economic growth is stalled, the U.S. debt overhang may trigger an increase in inflation of … about 5 percent for several years. This additional inflation would significantly reduce the debt ratio, even with some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921540
This paper analyzes the importance of monetary and fiscal policy shocks in explaining US macroeconomic fluctuations, and establishes new stylized facts. The novelty of our empirical analysis is that we jointly consider both monetary and fiscal policy, whereas the existing literature only focuses...
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The U.S. fiscal cliff has sparked renewed interest on the issue of fiscal sustainability. Using a time-varying parameter model with a longer data set (1916-2011), there is evidence that the response of primary surplus-income ratio to debt-GDP ratio shows (1) substantial variation over time, (2)...
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The paper examines the sustainability of U.S. fiscal policy, finding substantial evidence in favor. I summarize the U.S. fiscal record from 1792-2003, critically review sustainability conditions and their testable implications, and apply them to U.S. data. I particularly emphasize the...
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In this paper, we compare the total size of intertemporal public liabilities (IPLs) of several European countries and the United States. We utilize the machinery of generational accounting in order to calculate the composition of the countries IPLs, that is the sum of the explicit and implicit...
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This paper uses a range of structural VARs to show that the response of US stock prices to fiscal shocks changed in 1980. Over the period 1955-1980 an expansionary spending or revenue shock was associated with modestly higher stock prices. After 1980, along with a decline in the fiscal...
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This paper uses a range of structural VARs to show that the response of US stock prices to fiscal shocks changed in 1980. Over the period 1955-1979 an expansionary spending or revenue shock was associated with modestly higher stock prices. After 1980, along with a decline in the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011887044