Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
The Fiscal Myth of the Price Level
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for International Economic Studies.
2002 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

I examine the "fiscal theory of the price level" according to which "non-Ricardian" policy and predetermined nominal government debt fiscally determine prices. I argue that the non-Ricardian policy assumption and, by implication, fiscal price level determination are inconsistent with a rational expectations equilibrium where all asset holdings reflect optimal household choices. In such a rational expectations equilibrium, policy must be Ricardian even if, in some states of nature, the government defaults or runs an exogenous real primary surplus sequence.

I propose an alternative to the fiscal theory of the price level, based on nominal flows instead of nominal stocks. While this alternative framework establishes a consistent link between fiscal policy and the price level, it does not introduce inflationary fiscal effects beyond those suggested by Sargent and Wallace.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: IIES , 2002. , p. 21
Series
Seminar Paper / Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. (Online), ISSN 1653-610X ; 710
Keywords [en]
fiscal theory of the price level, debt insurance
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42025OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-42025DiVA, id: diva2:343727
Available from: 2010-08-16 Created: 2010-08-16 Last updated: 2010-08-16Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(447 kB)1440 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT01.pdfFile size 447 kBChecksum SHA-512
b003d363666a7c159217c92921b4b0472bb6cea12ebd3a7f7a8f0e50fe1cd49d20534f580430d3e54aadbbb35c15507e5a06b6704d1edf259c8c4e4c3663c1ec
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Institute for International Economic Studies
Economics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 1441 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 247 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf