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Shotgun Wedding: Fiscal and Monetary Policy
This paper describes interactions between monetary and fiscal policies that affect equilibrium price levels and interest rates by critically surveying theories about (a) optimal anticipated inflation, (b) optimal unanticipated inflation, and (c) conditions that secure a “nominal anchor” in the sense of a unique price level path. We contrast incomplete theories whose inputs are budget-feasible sequences of government issued bonds and money with complete theories whose inputs are bond-money strategies described as sequences of functions that map time t histories into time t government ...
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Do Budget Deficits Matter?
Do Budget Deficits Matter? {{p}} Some economists and policymakers have argued for increasing public spending. What might that mean for inflation and monetary policy?