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The macroeconomic response to the economic crisis has revived old debates about the usefulness of monetary and fiscal policy in fighting recessions. Without the ability to further lower interest rates, policy authorities in many countries have turned to expansionary fiscal policies. Recent...
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This paper examines how the scale and composition of public debt can affect economies that implement a combination of …
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This paper considers whether eliminating the stock of government debt outstanding would reduce welfare. It models an economy with three assets—currency, government bonds, and storage, a transactions role for money, and a demand for liquidity and thus a role for banks. The Friedman rule is not...
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We study the effects of nominal debt on the optimal sequential choice of monetary and debt policy. When the stock of debt is nominal, the incentive to generate unanticipated inflation increases the cost of the outstanding debt even if no unanticipated inflation episodes occur in equilibrium....
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scale and composition of the public debt, matter for inflation. As a result, fiscal policy constrains the efficacy of … moderate had fiscal policy been characterized by a scale and composition of public debt now witnessed in some advanced …
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This paper focuses on Albania’s Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), Request for a Waiver of Nonobservance of Performance Criterion, and Financing Assurances Review. Performance since the third review has been satisfactory...
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This paper-consisting of a regional study and seven country studies-reviews the state of domestic public debt markets … account for the lion's share of capital markets, regional public debt markets remain underdeveloped for a variety of reasons …. The problems of small scale, dollarization, and weak public finances in many countries are compounded by poor structure …
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This paper examines Albania’s 2002 Article IV Consultation, First Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), and Requests for Modification and Waiver of Performance Criterion. Economic growth appears to have fallen below a 7 percent...
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