Díaz Giménez, Javier; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Marimon, Ramon - 2005
We study the effects of nominal debt on the optimal sequential choice of monetary 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 … stock of debt progressively until these extra costs disappear. Nominal debt is therefore a burden on monetary policy, not …