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This paper demonstrates how adding nominal wage rigidity to a standard sticky price model can create a mechanism by which increases in government spending cause increases in consumption. The increase in output arising from government purchases puts upward pressure on the price level. At a fixed...
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multiplier of fiscal expansion is found to be significantly dampened by tighter financial conditions in case households are less …
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Implementation lags are one of policymakers' concerns about fiscal policies, as these may reduce their efficacy. Using a standard New Keynesian model with an effective lower bound on the nominal interest rate, we compare the impacts of fiscal stimulus on output across various lengths of...
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to support the standard objection to such policies: that they will lead to uncontrollable inflation. Theoretical models … support for a relationship between monetary financing and inflation. The findings lend support to recent calls for explicit …
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With this paper, our objective is to empirically study public debt sustainability by estimating a fiscal reaction function where the primary balance relative to GDP is assumed to be a function of the public debt to GDP ratio of the previous year and of other macroeconomic variables. In...
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long run. In particular, we show that if monetary policy reacts aggressively to inflation, this supports a steady state … where inflation is close to the central bank's target. However, the same aggressive policy simultaneously favours the … inflation are lower and monetary policy is constrained by the effective lower bound. We discuss how fiscal policy can be used to …
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have constrained monetary authorities to respond to inflation and output during crisis, while there is mixed evidence for …
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have constrained monetary authorities to respond to inflation and output during crisis, while there is mixed evidence for …
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A low-inflation mystery emerged during the 2010-2019 period as the Federal Reserve struggled to hit its two percent … inflation target. This paper presents theoretical results and empirical evidence that points to the safe asset shortage as a key … reason for the low inflation during this time. Specifically, the paper shows that the safe asset shortage was part of a …
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We analyse the impact of fiscal policy shocks in the euro area as a whole, using a newly available quarterly dataset of fiscal variables for the period 1981-2007. To allow for comparability with previous results on euro area countries and the US, we use a standard structural VAR framework, and...
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