Fiscal consolidation in a disinflationary environment: price vs. quantity-based measures
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- dc.contributor.author Pappa, Evica
- dc.contributor.author Sajedi, Ranaca
- dc.contributor.author Vella, Eugeniaca
- dc.date.accessioned 2016-05-13T07:05:07Z
- dc.date.available 2016-05-13T07:05:07Z
- dc.date.issued 2016-02
- dc.description.abstract An important feature of the current economic conditions in the EU, which challenges the design and implementation of macroeconomic policy, is inflation uncertainty. With monetary policy at the zero lower bound, and inflation well below its target, a key issue for policy makers is the effect /nthis has on the transmission of fiscal policy. We aim to address this question, in particular comparing the effects of price-based and quantity-based fiscal instruments. In this paper we focus on the public wage bill, and consider a model of a monetary union in which the government can /nconsolidate their debt through reductions in the public wage or public employment. We find that in both cases the low inflation environment eliminates the expansionary effects of the reduction in the public wage bill for the private sector. The drag in economic activity is substantially amplified/nin the low inflation environment, with increased debt-to-GDP levels during the consolidation process.ca
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- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26281
- dc.language.iso engca
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Ademu Working Papers Series;3
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/649396
- dc.rights This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properlyattributed.ca
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- dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ca
- dc.subject.keyword Fiscal consolidation
- dc.subject.keyword Public wage bill
- dc.subject.keyword Zero lower bound
- dc.subject.keyword Unemployment
- dc.title Fiscal consolidation in a disinflationary environment: price vs. quantity-based measuresca
- dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperca