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Government Debt, the Money Supply, and Inflation; Theory and Evidence for Seven Industrialized Economies

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  • Aris Protopapadakis
  • Jeremy Siegel

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This paper analyzes the theoretical and empirical relation between the growth of government debt and monetary policy for seven industrialized countries: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the U.K., and the U.S. After analyzing the data we find that: (i) rates of monetary growth frequently differ sharply from the rate of growth of nominal government debt, so that there is no evidence that a rapidly growing level of government debt encourages immediate monetization; (ii) the rate of inflation is approximately equal to the difference between the rate of growth of the money supply and real output in all countries over all subperiods, so there is no evidence that an increase in government debt is a significant independent cause of inflation; and, (iii) 1974 signals a turning point in postwar data trends, marked by a decline in the rate of growth of real output and a sharp rise in the rate of growth of nominal debt for all the countries.

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  • Aris Protopapadakis & Jeremy Siegel, "undated". "Government Debt, the Money Supply, and Inflation; Theory and Evidence for Seven Industrialized Economies," Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Papers 15-84, Wharton School Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.
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    1. B. Douglas Bernheim, 1987. "Ricardian Equivalence: An Evaluation of Theory and Evidence," NBER Chapters, in: NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1987, Volume 2, pages 263-316, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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