Macroeconomic Consequences of the Pandemic with David Andolfatto, Beata Javorcik and Ricardo Reis 27 Aug 2021
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Fiscal policy is as significant as, and sometimes more important than, monetary policy in determining the price level and, therefore, the dynamics of inflation
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Robert Hetzel – “New Keynesianism in central banking: friend or foe?”
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From Freeman and Champ
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The Lucas critique summarised by Freeman and Champ
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Margaret Jacobson on how Roosevelt jump started the #economy in 1933
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Next Steps for the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level
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Speaking of supply bottlenecks
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A New Theory on What Causes Inflation with Economist John Cochrane
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Freeman and Champ explain the Lucas revolution
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Israel 1983: A bout of unpleasant monetarist arithmetic
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Thomas Sargent pioneered the fiscal theory of the price level by studying both the end of hyper-inflations and moderate inflations
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From Stopping Moderate Inflations: The Methods of Poincaré and Thatcher (1982) by Thomas Sargent








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