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American Economic Review Vol. 103 No. 2 2013

Paper Money

Christopher A. Sims

Princeton University, Department of Economics.

Abstract

Drastic changes in central bank operations and monetary institutions in recent years have made previously standard approaches to explaining the determination of the price level obsolete. Recent expansions of central bank balance sheets and of the levels of richcountry sovereign debt, as well as the evolving political economy of the European Monetary Union, have made it clear that fiscal policy and monetary policy are intertwined. Our thinking and teaching about inflation, monetary policy, and fiscal policy should be based on models that recognize fiscal-monetary policy interactions.

DOI
10.1257/aer.103.2.563
Volume
103
Issue
2
Pages
563-584
Language
en
Sources
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