Understanding Inflation as a Joint Monetary-Fiscal Phenomenon /

We develop the theory of price-level determination in a range of models using both ad hoc policy rules and jointly optimal monetary and fiscal policies and discuss empirical issues that arise when trying to identify monetary-fiscal regime. The article concludes with directions in which theoretical a...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Leeper, Eric M.
Körperschaft:
National Bureau of Economic Research
Weitere Verfasser:
Leith, Campbell
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
Zusammenfassung:
We develop the theory of price-level determination in a range of models using both ad hoc policy rules and jointly optimal monetary and fiscal policies and discuss empirical issues that arise when trying to identify monetary-fiscal regime. The article concludes with directions in which theoretical and empirical developments may go. The article is prepared for the Handbook of Macroeconomics, volume 2 (John B. Taylor and Harald Uhlig, editors, Elsevier Press).
Umfang:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Anmerkungen:
January 2016.
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