Public Debt, Money Supply, and Inflation : : A Cross-Country Study and Its Application to Jamaica / / Goohoon Kwon, Lavern McFarlane, Wayne Robinson

• Autore: Kwon Goohoon
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (39 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Debts, Public - Econometric models; Money supply; Inflation (Finance); Inflation; Money and Monetary Policy; Public Finance; Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt; Price Level; Deflation; Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General; Fiscal Policy; Macroeconomics; Public finance & taxation; Monetary economics; Public debt; Monetary base; Fiscal policy; Government debt management; Debts, Public; Prices
• Soggetto geografico: Jamaica
• Altri autori: McFarlaneLavern RobinsonWayne
• Note generali: "May 2006".
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK""; ""III. EMPIRICAL FINDINGS OF THE CROSS-COUNTRY STUDY""; ""IV. APPLICATION TO JAMAICA""; ""V. POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""A. DATA SOURCES AND DEFINITIONS AND COUNTRY GROUPING""; ""B. DEBT-INFLATION TRAP AND DEBT SUSTAINABILITY""; ""REFERENCES""
• Sommario/riassunto: This paper provides comprehensive empirical evidence that supports the predictions of Sargent and Wallace's (1981) "unpleasant monetarist arithmetic" that an increase in public debt is typically inflationary in countries with large public debt. Drawing on an extensive panel dataset, we find that the relationship holds strongly in indebted developing countries, weakly in other developing countries, but generally not in developed economies. These results are robust to the inclusion of other variables, corrections for endogeneity biases, and relaxation of common-slope restrictions and are invariant over sub-sample periods. We estimate a VAR to trace out the transmission channel and find the impulse responses consistent with the predictions of a forward-looking model of inflation. Wealth effects of public debt could also affect inflation, as posited by the fiscal theory of the price level, but we do not find supportive evidence. The results suggest that the risk of a debt-inflation trap is significant in highly indebted countries, and pure money-based stabilization is unlikely to be effective over the medium term. Our findings stress the importance of institutional and structural factors in the link between fiscal policy and inflation.
• Titolo autorizzato: Public Debt, Money Supply, and Inflation
• ISBN: 1-4623-2458-4; 1-4527-3602-2; 1-282-44690-8; 1-4519-9724-8; 9786613820907
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788523103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2006/121