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According to this model, when the government persistently spends more than it collects in taxes and prints money to finance the shortfall (the "shortfall is called the "government deficit"), it puts upward pressure on the price level and generates
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persistent inflation.
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The "fiscal theory of the price level" asserts that
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The "fiscal theory of the price level" asserts that
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* to **start** a persistent inflation the government simply persistently runs a money-financed government deficit
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Some of our quantitative experiments with the model are designed to illustrate how the fiscal theory explains the abrupt end of those big inflations.
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In those experiments, we'll encounter an instance of a ''velocity dividend'' that has sometimes accompanied successful inflation stabilization programs.
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In those experiments, we'll encounter an instance of a ''velocity dividend'' that has sometimes accompanied successful inflation stabilization programs.
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To facilitate using linear matrix algebra as our main mathematical tool, we'll use a finite horizon version of the model.
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