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Department of Economics, School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590817500242Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to examine the effects and mechanism of government expenditures (GEs) in determining the long-term inflation differentials across countries. For this purpose, we formulate a theoretical model and the related regression system. The models allow us to understand and quantify the supply-side (SS) and demand-side (DS) effects of GEs in determining prosperity or stagnation across countries. This study provides cross-country evidences and related mechanisms supporting the hypothesis and conclusion that active short-term AD policies and over-estimated potential output, as argued in Orphanides (2003), were contributive to the Great Inflation.

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JEL: E1, O38

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