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Money-financed Fiscal Policy in a Growing Economy

Journal of Political Economy 1980 88(2), 259-287
The paper examines the trajectories of the economic variables when government expenditures are financed by changes in the money stock. It is shown that government budget balance is not a condition for equilibrium. If the nominal rate of interest changes by about as much as the expected rate of inflation, a rise in real government purchases per capita has the following effects: There will be a positive impact upon output per capita but steady-state output per capita and the capital intensity will decline, and there will be a rise in the inflation tax on real balances and steady-state rate of inflation.