-benevolent government. Although this reform would be socially beneficial and initially succeed in reducing inflation, it would fail to lower … inflation permanently. The smaller anticipated policy distortions implemented by a more independent central bank would induce … the fiscal authority to trade-off higher current deficits for lower future deficits. In the long run, inflation would …

positive at the onset of the episode, through promising higher inflation rates in future periods. We embed our theory into a … commiting to keep interest rates low at the exit of the liquidity trap, to stabilize inflation today. 2. From debt … consolidated budget) monetary policy becomes subservient to fiscal policy, giving rise to more volatile inflation, output and …

When taxes do not sufficiently adjust to government debt levels, the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level predicts that … other variables, such as inflation and output gap, must adjust to ensure the solvency of public finances. We study the role …-off between inflation and output gap: The Persistence, Discounting and Hedging channels. Our findings, based on a rich prior …

According to the game-theoretic model of monetary policy, inflation is the consequence of time-inconsistent behavior of … the monetary authority. The inflation bias can be eased by handing over the responsibility for monetary policy to an … sample of 11 OECD countries. -- Central Banking ; Conservatism ; Central Bank Independence ; Inflation …

independence and inflation. In this paper, we construct a theory where the relationship between inflation and central bank … inflation or costly fiscal expansion) rejects the monetary policy proposal of the central bank (which aims to minimize inflation …, increasing the fixed cost of rejecting the central bank's offer creates two opposite effects on inflation: delegation effect and …