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Inflation and Fiscal Deficits: The Irrelevance of Debt and Money Financing

By José M. Barrionuevo

December 1, 1992

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José M. Barrionuevo Inflation and Fiscal Deficits: The Irrelevance of Debt and Money Financing, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1992) accessed September 24, 2024
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Summary

The purpose of this paper is to present a model that circumvents the requirement of explicitly setting a period in which the fiscal budget is to be balanced, yet implies that increases in the growth of public debt are bound to increase inflation when there is no perceived commitment to reduce the fiscal deficit. The model is based on a modified version of the cash in advance constraint. The results of numerical simulations suggest that an increase in the growth of debt to finance current consumption leads to an equal increase in inflation. The timing of this increase varies with the size of the deficit and the pace of economic growth. It is shown that small increases in small deficits yield fairly significant increases in inflation. Three policy conclusions are offered.

Subject: Credit, Government debt management, Government debt planning, Inflation, Money, Prices, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Credit, Debt, Debt growth, Debt policy, Debt-output ratio, Deficit, Europe, Government debt management, Government debt planning, Growth policy, Inflation, Inflation aftermath, Inflation consequence, Inflation path, Irrelevance proposition, Model of inflation, Money model, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    32

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1992/102

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1021992

  • ISBN:

    9781451852561

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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