Price level determinacy and monetary policy under a balanced-budget requirement

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 211-246

  Schmitt Grohé, Stephanie ^a   Uribe, Martín ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced budget rules; E31; E52; E63; Fiscal theory of the price level; Monetary policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000924403     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(99)00046-X     Document Type: Article

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