IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/pfq/journl/v70y2024i3p70-86.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Inflation, monetary pain, fiscal relief

Author

Listed:
  • Kutasi, Gábor
  • Czeczeli, Vivien
  • Szalai, Piroska

Abstract

Katalin Botos, in issue 2023/4 of Pulic Finance Quarterly, examined the causes of inflation in the crisis years of 2020, its management, which she considers inadequate, and finally its fiscal impact. On the occasion of her assessment of the inflationary period, we reflect on her thoughts on impoverishment and fiscal sustainability with extended time series as the inflationary rollercoaster has passed. Our analysis is based on the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which was launched its scientific career in the USA. MMT paradigm is that dealing with high inflation through monetary tightening inevitably leads to recession or crisis, which also breaks the income trajectory, and instead proposes fiscal solutions to avoid side effects.

Suggested Citation

  • Kutasi, Gábor & Czeczeli, Vivien & Szalai, Piroska, 2024. "Inflation, monetary pain, fiscal relief," Public Finance Quarterly, Corvinus University of Budapest, vol. 70(3), pages 70-86.
    • Handle: RePEc:pfq:journl:v:70:y:2024:i:3:p:70-86
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.35551/PFQ_2024_3_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://unipub.lib.uni-corvinus.hu/10527/
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/https://doi.org/10.35551/PFQ_2024_3_4?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    inflation; households; income; wealth; MMT; fiscal sustainability;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • B52 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Historical; Institutional; Evolutionary; Modern Monetary Theory;
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • G51 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - Household Savings, Borrowing, Debt, and Wealth
    • H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pfq:journl:v:70:y:2024:i:3:p:70-86. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Adam Hoffmann (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/bkeeehu.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.