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Who Controls the Price Level?

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  • Oya S. Erdogdu

    (Ankara University)

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Under the guidance of monetarist theory and the issue of dominance, this study is a survey of a rapidly growing literature on Fiscal Theory of Price Level, which opens up new horizons in a non –Ricardian world and questions the effectiveness of monetary policy on price level determination.

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  • Oya S. Erdogdu, 2003. "Who Controls the Price Level?," Macroeconomics 0304012, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    inflation; price level; FTPL; non Ricardian;
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    JEL classification:

    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation

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