Monetary Commitment and the Level of Public Debt
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Keywords
Credibility; Fiscal policy; Inflation targets; Monetary policy framework;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2016-03-17 (Central Banking)
- NEP-DGE-2016-03-17 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-MAC-2016-03-17 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MON-2016-03-17 (Monetary Economics)
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