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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Paper Money

  • Christopher A. Sims
American Economic Review
vol. 103, no. 2, April 2013
(pp. 563–84)
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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 rich-country 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. (JEL E31, E52, E58, E62, H63)

Citation

Sims, Christopher A. 2013. "Paper Money." American Economic Review, 103 (2): 563–84. DOI: 10.1257/aer.103.2.563

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JEL Classification

  • E31 Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
  • E52 Monetary Policy
  • E58 Central Banks and Their Policies
  • E62 Fiscal Policy
  • H63 National Debt; Debt Management; Sovereign Debt