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This note comments on two central issues for fiscal policy design in the United Kingdom, highlighted in the recent ‘Code for Fiscal Stability’ proposed by the new Labour government. The first concerns the merits of the so-called ‘golden rule of public sector investment’ – the...
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The paper considers the case for an internationally coordinated further fiscal stimulus during the second half of 2009. Although this makes some of the analysis period-specific, most of the issues and principles considered are timeless. For a fiscal stimulus to be both effective there must be...
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There are few if any technical problems involved in reversing the unconventional monetary policies - quantitative easing, credit easing and enhanced credit support - implemented by central banks around the world as short-term nominal interest rates became constrained by the zero lower bound. The...
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