Alexandru MINEA

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MINEA
Alexandru

Domaine de recherche : Macroéconomie et Finance

E-mail : alexandru.minea@uca.fr

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Communications

2024

The perils of fiscal feedback rules

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Environmental quality along the process of economic growth: a theoretical reappraisal

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu, Anastasios Xepapadeas

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Inflation targeting and firm performance in developing countries

Bao We Wal Bambe, Jean-Louis Combes, Kabinet Kaba, Alexandru Minea

We examine the impact of inflation targeting on manufacturing firm performance in developing countries. Using a panel of 31,027 firms in 47 countries from 2006 to 2020 and applying the entropy balancing method to mitigate selection issues, we find that inflation targeting significantly increases firm growth and productivity. The findings are economically significant and robust to various checks. Moreover, we provide evidence that our results are not biased towards unobservables nor are they confounded with the effects induced by other reforms, such as IMF programs. We further show that economic and institutional factors such as the quality of judicial processes, fiscal discipline, central bank deviations from the target, and the time length since the policy adoption also influence the link between the monetary regime and firm performance. Last, we explore the main transmission channels and identify macroeconomic stability as the key driver of the regime's effectiveness.

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On the side effects of fiscal policy: Fiscal rules and income inequality

Jean-Louis Combes, Xavier Debrun, Alexandru Minea, Pegdéwendé Nestor Sawadogo, Cezara Vinturis

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2023

The sectoral trade losses from financial crises

Jean-Marc B Atsebi, Jean-Louis Combes, Alexandru Minea

Abstract The “Great Trade Collapse” triggered by the 2008-2009 crisis calls for a careful assessment of the trade losses from financial crises. We adopt a more detailed perspective by looking at the response of different types of trade (i.e. consumption, intermediate, capital goods, and business services) following various types of financial crises (i.e. debt, banking, and currency crises) in 41 emerging markets. Estimations performed in the 1980-2019 period using a combination of impact assessment and local projections to capture a causal dynamic effect running from financial crises to the trade activity show that the collapse of total trade is long-lasting and mainly driven by the fall of intermediate goods and to some extent capital goods, while trade in consumption goods and business services is more resilient to crises. Therefore, financial crises could lead to considerable disruption of global value chains, as observed during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), and easily spill over from one country to another through trade linkages. The examination of heterogeneity reveals that total and sectoral trade is more severely impacted in countries with a lower share of manufacturing exports, less diversified exported products, and trading partners, with lower demand from trading partners and when associated with a deterioration of the domestic and external financial conditions and sudden stops. By contributing to the understanding of the trade effects of financial crises, our analysis provides insightful support for the design and implementation of policies aimed at coping with these effects.

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Inflation targeting and fiscal policy volatility: Evidence from developing countries

Ablam Estel Apeti, Jean-Louis Combes, Alexandru Minea

This paper studies the effect of inflation targeting (IT) on fiscal policy volatility. Using data for 83 developing countries over 1985-2020, estimations based on impact analysis methods reveal that IT adoption reduces fiscal policy volatility. This result is robust when using a wide set of alternative specifications related to additional control variables, different samples, alternative measures of the main variables, or alternative estimation methods. Consequently, contributing to the ongoing literature on fiscal policy volatility, our results suggest that reforms of the monetary policy management in the form of IT adoption may provide a useful policy for fighting fiscal discretion towards a reduction of fiscal policy volatility.

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Inflation targeting and the composition of public expenditure: Evidence from developing countries

Ablam Estel Apeti, Jean-Louis Combes, Alexandru Minea

An important literature shows that inflation targeting (IT) adoption improves fiscal discipline. Our impact assessment analysis performed in a large sample of 89 developing countries over three decades shows that this favorable impact covers a composition effect: IT adoption is found to reduce more current expenditure compared with public investment in IT countries relative to non-IT countries. This finding is robust to various alternative specification, related to the structure of the sample, the measurement of the IT regime, or the estimation method. Consequently, aside from its acknowledged benefits for monetary policy goals, IT appears as an efficient tool to strengthen fiscal policy in developing countries towards lower and more productive public expenditure.

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2022

Can Public Debt Mitigate Environmental Debt? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Mohamed Boly, Jean-Louis Combes, Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Pascale Combes Motel, Patrick Villieu

This paper investigates the relationship between public debt and environmental debt—reflecting CO carbon concentration. First, using an endogenous growth model in which pollution abatement spending can be financed by public debt, we show that public debt and environmental debt are complementary in the long run and usually substitutes in the short run. Second, these predictions are empirically confirmed: in particular, a 1% increase in the public debt ratio leads to an increase of 0.74% in cumulative CO per capita in the long run. Our findings emphasize the difficulty of defining policies that jointly serve both the economic (fiscal) and the environmental goals, due to the short- and long-run conflicting environmental effects of policies that either reduce or do not constrain public debt.

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Does more finance lead to longer crises?

Clément Mathonnat, Alexandru Minea, Marcel Voia

Empirical studies emphasise that higher financial development (FD) amplifies the output cost of banking crises. However, no study has so far investigated the effect of FD on another key dimension of banking crises, namely their duration. Using a large sample of banking crises over the 1977-2014 period, we find that higher FD is associated with a significant increase in the duration of banking crises (DBC). This result is robust to a broad range of alternative specifications and is unaffected by unobserved heterogeneity or endogeneity. Finally, we show that the effect of FD on DBC is subject to nonlinearities and varies across decades and with the level of economic development.

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2021

Inflation targeting adoption and institutional quality: Evidence from developing countries

Alexandru Minea, René Tapsoba, Patrick Villieu

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New challenges for fiscal policy in Central and Eastern Europe

Alexandru Minea, Camélia Turcu

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2018

Inflation Targeting, Fiscal Rules and the Policy Mix: Cross‐effects and Interactions

Jean‐louis Combes, Xavier Debrun, Alexandru Minea, René Tapsoba

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Financial development and the occurrence of banking crises

Clément Mathonnat, Alexandru Minea

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Deficit, monetization, and economic growth: a case for multiplicity and indeterminacy

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

This paper develops an original analysis of deficit monetization in a growth model with transaction costs, in which economic growth interacts with productive public expenditures. This interaction generates two positive balanced growth paths (BGP) in the long run: a high BGP and a low BGP. The transitional dynamics show that multiplicity cannot be rejected if transaction costs affect both consumption and investment expenditures, with possible indeterminacy of the high BGP. Importantly, deficit monetization is shown to reduce the parameter space producing indeterminacy.

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2015

Deforestation and Seigniorage in Developing Countries: A Tradeoff?

Jean-Louis Combes, Pascale Combes Motel, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

Most of countries covered by natural forests are developing countries, with limited ability to levy taxes and restrained access to international credit markets. Consequently, they are amenable to draw heavily on two sources of government financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990–2010 period confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model and show that international transfers dedicated to forest protection can upturn the positive link between tighter monetary policies and deforestation, and then discuss the relevance of this finding with respect to recent institutional arrangements.

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2014

Les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale et l’Union européenne : quelles stratégies de politiques budgétaire et monétaire ?

Alexandru Minea, Thierry Montalieu

Les récentes élections européennes qui se sont déroulées dans un climat pessimiste et les graves tensions manifestées dans le voisinage esteuropéen, soulèvent la question du devenir des pays d’Europe centrale et orientale (PECO). Ces économies en ont-elles terminé de leur transition économique ? L’intégration à l’Union européenne (UE) est-elle (toujours) un mirage ? Avant d’essayer de répondre à ces questions, il nous semble pertinent de proposer un tour d’horizon de la conjoncture macro-économique dans ces pays. Il ressort assez rapidement de ce panorama qu’au-delà des cycles conjoncturels, beaucoup de ces économies sont confrontées à de réelles difficultés structurelles, qu’il s’agisse de leur capacité à générer de la croissance, ou encore de leur faculté à réorganiser leur système financier. L’intégration à l’Union européenne a pu servir d’ancrage pour les réformes nécessaires et en même temps pour connecter ces nouvelles économies de marché à une zone, certes riche, mais engluée dans une croissance molle. Quelles sont les perspectives pour les pays intégrés depuis 2004, ou plus récemment et plus encore, pour ceux qui souhaiteraient l’être dans le futur ?

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Debt, seigniorage, and the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries

Hélène Ehrhart, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

The endogenous growth literature established the existence of an inverted-U curve between taxes and economic growth, namely a Growth Laffer Curve, but empirical evidence on this relationship in developing countries is rather limited. Given that seigniorage and public debt are also important means of financing public spending in these countries, we take into account in this paper their respective impacts on growth, as they might deform the existing relationship between taxes and growth. To this end, we develop a growth model with public investment as the engine of perpetual growth, and look for the effect of debt, tax and money financing on economic growth. We study in particular the way fiscal and monetary policies deform the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries. An empirical section based on a panel of 100 developing countries over the period 1980–2010 provides both OLS-Fixed Effects and GMM-system estimations that support our theoretical conclusions, namely the existence of Growth Laffer Curves indexed by the levels of debt and of seigniorage.

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2013

Debt policy rule, productive government spending, and multiple growth paths: a note

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

In a very interesting endogenous growth model, Futagami, Iwaisako, and Ohdoi [Macroeconomic Dynamics 12 (2008), 445-462] study the long-run growth effect of borrowing for public investment. Their model exhibits (i) the ltiplicity of balanced growth paths (BGPs) in the long run (two steady states) and (ii) a possible indeterminacy of the transition path to the high-growth BGP. The goal of this note is to show that their results depend on a sharp assumption, namely the definition of the public debt target as a ratio to private capital. If the target is defined in terms of public debt-to-GDP ratio, both results vanish: the model exhibits a unique BGP (no multiplicity) and the adjustment path to this unique equilibrium is determinate (no indeterminacy).

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Is public capital really productive? A methodological reappraisal

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Hurlin

We present an evaluation of the main empirical approaches used in the literature to estimate the contribution of public capital stock to growth and private factors' productivity. Based on a simple stochastic general equilibrium model, built as to reproduce the main long-run relations observed in US post-war historical data, we show that the production function approach may not be reliable to estimate this contribution. Our analysis reveals that this approach largely overestimates the public capital elasticity, given the presence of a common stochastic trend shared by all non-stationary inputs.

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2011

External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board

Christophe Rault, Alexandru Minea

Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of losing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian monetary variables are endogenous under a CB, we focus on the ECB and FED interest rates as the main sources on monetary volatility. First, we find that ECB shocks are more rapidly absorbed and have less significant impact of domestic variables, with respect to other external monetary shocks (FED rate changes). Second, the responses of Bulgarian variables following changes in the ECB interest rate present lower persistence and significance, with respect to what the previous literature emphasized for other CEEC with monetary autonomy. This latter result still holds when accounting for different sources of cross-country heterogeneity outlined in the literature, thus supporting that the adoption of the CB may have worked as a rather good device in terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU.

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Déficits persistants et croissance endogène

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

Dans cet article, nous nous intéressons aux effets des déficits publics sur la croissance, dans un modèle de croissance endogène avec investissement public pouvant être financé par impôt ou dette publique. Nous nous focalisons sur la croissance de long terme et étudions la manière dont des déficits persistants influencent la croissance. Nous montrons que ces déficits réduisent toujours la croissance à long terme, indépendamment des règles budgétaires adoptées par le gouvernement.

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2010

Financial Development, Institutional Quality and Maximizing-Growth Trade-Off in Government Finance

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

This paper studies monetary and fiscal policies in an endogenous growth model with transaction costs. We show that the relation between long-run economic growth and both monetary and fiscal policies is subject to threshold effects, a result that gives account of a number of recent empirical findings. Furthermore, the model shows that, to finance public expenditures, growth-maximizing governments must choose relatively high seigniorage (respectively income taxation), if “institutional quality” and “financial development” indicators are low (respectively high). Thus, our model may explain why some governments resort to seigniorage and inflationary finance, and others rather resort to high tax rates, as a result of growthmaximizing strategies in different structural environments (notably concerning institutional and financial development contexts). In addition, the model allows examining how the optimal mix of government finance changes in response to different public debt contexts. A short empirical section confirms our theoretical results.

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Développement financier, qualité institutionnelle et croissance : un modèle simple avec effet de seuil

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

Dans les analyses empiriques, la " qualité institutionnelle " semble être une variable déterminante pour établir le sens de la relation entre finance et croissance. Ainsi, Demetriades & Law (2004) montrent que le développement financier exerce un effet favorable sur la croissance lorsque les institutions sont saines, alors que cette corrélation disparaît si les institutions sont altérées. Dans cet article, nous tentons de reproduire ce fait saillant dans un modèle de croissance endogène. Dans notre modèle, lorsque la qualité institutionnelle dépasse un certain seuil, la relation entre finance et croissance est positive, alors qu'en deçà du seuil, elle devient négative. Ce résultat s'explique de la manière suivante : le développement financier abaisse les coûts de transaction sur l'investissement privé, mais réduit également les recettes de seigneuriage utilisables pour les investissements publics. Par conséquent, il est favorable à la croissance seulement si d'autres recettes publiques peuvent être utilisées pour financer les investissements publics, donc si la qualité institutionnelle est suffisante pour permettre de collecter des impôts autrement que par taxe inflationniste. Au contraire, si la qualité institutionnelle est trop faible, la perte de recettes de seigneuriage ne peut être compensée par la collecte de nouveaux impôts, et les infrastructures nécessaires au développement ne peuvent être programmées.

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Dette publique, croissance et bien-être : une perspective de long terme

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

Nous proposons un modèle théorique simple permettant de prendre en compte l'existence de régimes d'endettement de long terme, en accord avec les faits saillants observés en longue période. Nous nous intéressons particulièrement aux effets d'une hausse permanente de la dette publique sur la croissance à long terme, et nous montrons que ces effets, toujours négatifs (on nuls), dépendent dans leur ampleur de la variable d'ajustement à la charge de la dette dans la contrainte budgétaire de l'Etat. Enfin, nous montrons qu'au contraire des effets sur la croissance, les effets sur le bien-être à long terme d'une hausse permanente de la dette publique peuvent être positifs. Nous en déduisons l'existence d'un seuil optimal pour le ratio de dette publique au PIB.

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Endogenous Growth, Government Debt and Budgetary Regimes : A Corrigendum

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

We correct an error in [Greiner, A., Semmler, W., 2000. Endogenous growth, government debt and budgetary regimes. Journal of Macroeconomics 22, 363-384] concerning the effect of different debt rules on long term economic growth. We focus on Proposition1 stating that, in some cases, using deficits to finance productive public expenditures, may raise long term economic growth. We propose an analytical proof, showing that the cases in which deficits raise the balanced growth path imply Ponzi games and are, therefore, infeasible. Consequently, using deficits to finance public investment is always detrimental to economic growth in the long-run in their model.

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Introduction. Développement financier, institutions et croissance

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2009

Impôt, déficit et croissance économique : un réexamen de la courbe de Laffer

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

Depuis le modèle de Barro (1990), la littérature théorique met en évidence l'existence d'une relation en cloche entre impôt et croissance économique, dans l'esprit de la « courbe de Laffer ». Cependant, les évidences empiriques semblent réfuter une telle relation. Nous montrons que ce hiatus disparaît lorsque l'on prend en compte l'effet des déficits publics. En effet, l?indexation de la relation impôt-croissance par le ratio de déficit public permet de réconcilier les données avec les travaux théoriques mettant en évidence une « courbe de Laffer de croissance »

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Some New Insights into Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Bulgaria

Alexandru Minea, C. Rault

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Investissement public et effets non-linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

Dans cet article, nous proposons un modèle théorique simple dans lequel l'impact du déficit budgétaire sur les dépenses publiques d'investissement dépend du niveau de dette publique (en pourcentage du PIB). Lorsque la dette publique est faible, l'impact du déficit est positif, car la charge de la dette peut être absorbée par une diminution des dépenses de consommation. Lorsque la dette est très élevée, en revanche, il n'est plus possible de réduire les dépenses de consommation, et l'ajustement s'opère par les dépenses d'investissement, de sorte que la relation entre déficit et dépenses publiques d'investissement devient négative. Une analyse empirique menée dans un modèle économétrique avec effets de seuil en panel sur 22 pays de l'OCDE vient confirmer cette non linéarité.

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2008

Further Theoretical and Empirical Evidence on Money to Growth Relation

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault, Patrick Villieu

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Further Theoretical and Empirical Evidence on Money to Growth Relation

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault, Patrick Villieu

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Further Theoretical and Empirical Evidence on Money to Growth Relation

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault, Patrick Villieu

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Une nouvelle perspective sur la relation non linéaire entre déficits budgétaires et croissance économique

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Une nouvelle perspective sur la relation non linéaire entre déficits budgétaires et croissance économique

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Faut-il financer l'investissement public par emprunt? Les enseignements d'un modèle de croissance endogène

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Faut-il financer l'investissement public par emprunt? Les enseignements d'un modèle de croissance endogène

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2007

Un modèle simple de croissance endogène avec effet de seuil des politiques monétaire et fiscale

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Un modèle simple de croissance endogène avec effet de seuil des politiques monétaire et fiscale

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2006

Méthodes de décomposition tendance-cycle : quelques enseignements théoriques et empiriques

Alexandru Minea

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2005

The Economics of Persistent Deficits

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2024

How Do Natural Resource - Backed Loans Affect the Public Debt Sustainability in Developing Countries ? Empirical Evidence.

Yacouba Coulibaly, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

DR LEO - Working paper 2022-03

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Inflation Targeting and Developing countries' Performance: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Bao-We-Wal Bambe, Jeans-Louis Combes, Kabinet Kaba, Alexandru Minea

DR LEO - Working paper 2022-05

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2023

Fiscal institutions and the development of fiscal capacity: The case of fiscal rules

Ablam Estel Apeti, Jean-Louis Combes, Alexandru Minea

The development of fiscal capacity is widely acknowledged as an important pillar for strong state-building. However, the level of fiscal capacity remains structurally low mostly in developing countries due to a number of factors, including the lack of institutions driving governments to channel public resources to public interests or the substitution of domestic resources with external financing. Fiscal rules that limit the opportunistic use of public finances and reduce governments' appetite for debt could be a valuable tool. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the effect of fiscal rules on fiscal capacity. Two main theoretical arguments are presented to support the possible connection between fiscal rules and the development of fiscal capacity, namely the mitigation of the extraversion theory and the development of trust between citizens and governments. Based on entropy balancing and using a sample of 71 developing countries over the period 1985-2019, we show that countries that adopt fiscal rules experience an increase in their fiscal capacity. This result, which passes a series of robustness tests, reveals some heterogeneity, notably with respect to the types of fiscal rules, the effectiveness of fiscal rules, time spent under fiscal rules, and some structural factors.

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2021

The Perils of Fiscal Rules

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

This paper develops a limit-cycle-based theory of debt fluctuations through a simple endogenous growth model. Public debt and deficit are introduced by relaxing the balanced-budget rule hypothesis, and assuming a simple fiscal rule. Our main result is that fiscal rules can be destabilizing, leading to (i) multiple equilibria-four balanced-growth paths can emerge-, (ii) endogenous public debt cycles, which appear both in the short and the long run, and (iii) hysteresis phenomena arising from extreme sensitivity of changes in parameters. We also reveal that a balanced-budget rule does not preclude large aggregate fluctuations. Finally, our calibration exercise highlights that our model produces asymmetric cycles consistent with observed stylized facts.

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2019

Budget Rules, Distortionnary Taxes, and Aggregate Instability: A reappraisal

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

In a seminal contribution, Schmitt-Grohé and Uribe (JPE, 1997), showed that the balanced-budget rule (BBR) produces aggregate instability in an exogenous growth model with labor tax-based adjustment. The present paper challenges this result in an endogenous growth framework with a more general budget rule, involving deficit and debt in the long-run and making the BBR a special case. We show that the emergence of aggregate instability dramatically depends on the level of public spending. In particular, low public spending ensures determinacy. However, in the case of high public spending, multiplicity arises, with four potential equilibria: two high-growth BGPs, a low-growth trap, and a "catastrophic" equilibrium where the economy asymptotically collapses. In addition, when the ratio of public spending is sufficiently large, a subcritical Hopf bifurcation appears around the low-growth trap, giving rise to a homoclinic orbit going around the neighborhood of the catastrophic equilibrium. A calibration exercise confirms that these results are obtained for realistic values of parameters.

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Increasing Returns, Balanced-Budget Rules, and Aggregate Fluctuations

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

In a seminal contribution, Guo and Harrison (2004, JET) showed that, under a balanced-budget rule, the neoclassical growth model exhibits saddle-path stability when the adjustment is based on wasteful public spending. The present paper challenges this result in an endogenous growth framework with non-trivial dynamics of the debt-to-GDP ratio. We show that the emergence of aggregate instability dramatically depends on the strength of social labor externalities. If the labor demand is positively sloped and steeper than the labor supply, two reachable balanced-growth paths appear-a no growth trap, and a positive growth solution-that gives birth to both local and global indeterminacy, hence aggregate instability driven by self-fulfilling beliefs (sunspots). In addition, we show that a fiscal rule such that the tax rate strongly responds to public-debt increases can remove the no-growth trap, and secure positive long-run growth. JEL classification: E62; O41

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Public debt versus Environmental debt: What are the relevant Tradeoffs?

Mohamed Boly, Jean-Louis Combes, Pascale Combes Motel, Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

The article explores the relationship between public debt and environmental debt. The latter is defined as the difference between the "virgin state" which is the maximum stock of environmental quality that can be kept intact with natural regenerations and the current quality of the environment. A theoretical model of endogenous growth is built. We show that there is a unique well-determined balanced-growth path. The public debt and the environmental debt are substitute in the short-run but complementary in the long-run. Indeed, budget deficit provides additional resources to finance pollution abatement spending, but generate also unproductive expenditures (the debt burden). This hypothesis is tested on a sample of 22 countries for the period 1990-2011. The environmental debt is measured by the cumulative CO2 emissions per capita. We use panel time-series estimators which allow for heterogeneity in the slope coefficients between countries. It appears mainly that, in the long term, an increase of 100% in public debt ratio leads to an increase of 74% in cumulative CO2 per capita. In addition, this positive long-run relationship is still present at the country and the sub-sample level, despite some differences in the short-term dynamics.

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Endogenous fluctuations and the balanced-budget rule: taxes versus spending-based adjustment

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

The present paper develops a simple theoretical setup to examine the role of the tax-spending mix of fiscal adjustments on aggregate (in)stability in indebted economies. To this end, we build an AK endogenous growth model with public debt dynamics. If the adjustment of the government's budget constraint is based on a single instrument (taxes or public spending), the economy converges towards a high-growth path. With mixed adjustment, however, another equilibrium appears (the no-growth path) that can be locally over-determine (unstable) or under-determined (stable). A hopf bifurcation can occurs at the border between the last two cases, which leads to cyclical dynamics. We also show that global indeterminacy is likely to emerge if fiscal adjustment is mainly based on public spending. A calibration of the model shows that area of indeterminacy covers reasonable values for parameters.

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2016

Deficit Rules and Monetization in a Growth Model with Multiplicity and Indeterminacy

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

In response to the Great Recession, Central Banks around the world adopted " unconven-tional " monetary policies. In particular, the Fed, and more recently the ECB, launched massive debt monetization programs. In this paper, we develop a formal analysis of the short-and long-run consequences of deficit and debt monetization, through an endoge-nous growth model in which economic growth interacts with productive public expenditure. This interaction can generate two positive balanced growth paths (BGP) in the long-run: a high BGP and a low BGP, and further, depending on the form of the CIA constraint, possible multiplicity and indeterminacy. Thus, monetizing deficits is found to be remarkably powerful. First, a large dose of monetization might allow avoiding, whenever present, BGP indeterminacy. Second, monetization always allows increasing growth and welfare along the (high) BGP, by weakening the debt burden in the long-run. Third, with a CIA on consumption only, monetization provides a rationale for deficits in the long-run: for high degrees of monetization, the impact of deficits and debts on economic growth and welfare becomes positive in the steady-state.

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2015

Deficit Rules and Monetization in a Growth Model with Multiplicity and Indeterminacy

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Deforestation and Seigniorage in Developing Countries: A Tradeoff?

Jean-Louis Combes, Pascale Combes Motel, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

Most of countries covered by natural forests are developing countries, with limited ability to levy taxes and restrained access to international credit markets; consequently, they are amenable to draw heavily on two sources of government financing, namely seigniorage and deforestation revenues. First, we develop a theoretical model emphasizing a substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Second, a panel-data econometric analysis over the 1990-2010 period confirms our findings. Consequently, a tighter monetary policy hastens deforestation. Third, we extend the theoretical model and show that international transfers dedicated to forest protection can upturn the positive link between tighter monetary policies and deforestation, and then discuss the relevance of this finding with respect to recent institutional arrangements.

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2012

Is Public Capital Really Productive? A Methodological Reappraisal

Christophe Hurlin, Alexandru Minea

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2011

Dette publique, croissance et bien-être : une perspective de long terme

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Deficit, Seigniorage and the Growth Laffer Curve in developing countries

Hélène Ehrhart, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

The endogenous growth literature has established the existence of an inverted-U curve between taxes and economic growth, namely a Growth Laffer Curve (GLC). We develop a growth model with public investment as the engine of perpetual growth, and look for the effect of deficit, tax and money financing on economic growth. We study in particular the way fiscal and monetary policies (through deficit and seigniorage respectively) deform the GLC. An empirical section based on a panel of developing countries provides GMM-system estimators that support our theoretical conclusions.

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Disinflation against the Environment? An application to the trade-off between seigniorage and deforestation

Jean-Louis Combes, Pascale Combes Motel, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

The forest still covers an important share of land area in many developing countries and represents an important source of revenue for governments. Another major contribution to government revenues comes from printing money, namely the seigniorage. Building on a simple theoretical model where governments target inflation and aim at reducing deforestation while minimising a welfare loss function, we exhibit the potential substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues. Regressions run on a panel of developing countries show that there exists a non-negligible substitution effect between seigniorage and deforestation revenues, which is, as suggested by the theoretical model, even stronger if the endogenous character of seigniorage is taken into account. Adding variables suggested by the theoretical model as well as usual control variables in deforestation equations, do not alter the main result. As a consequence, disinflation policies as recommended by the IMF, may hasten deforestation. The model is extended to address this problem, which shows that international transfers dedicated to rainforest protection may upturn the positive correlation between tighter monetary policies and deforestation and give some additional support to REDD's advocates.

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2008

Monetary Policy Transmission: Old Evidence and Some New Facts from Bulgaria 1/Introduction

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Some New Insights into Currency Boards: Evidence from Bulgaria

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault

Résumé non disponible.

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Threshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Growth Model : Assessing the Importance of the Financial System

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Threshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Growth Model : Assessing the Importance of the Financial System

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Monetary Policy Transmission: Old Evidence and Some New Facts from Bulgaria 1/Introduction

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault

Résumé non disponible.

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Some New Insights into Currency Boards: Evidence from Bulgaria

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault

Résumé non disponible.

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2007

Investissement public et effects non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effects non-linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transactions Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2006

Threshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Threshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Financial Repression, Tax Evasion and Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Patrick Villieu, Alexandru Minea

In this paper, we study maximizing long-run economic growth trade-off in monetary and fiscal policies in an endogenous growth model with transaction costs. We show that both monetary and fiscal policies are subject to threshold effects, a result that gives account of a number of recent empirical findings. Furthermore, the model shows that, to finance public expenditures, maximizing-growth government must choose relatively high seigniorage (respectively income taxation), if "tax evasion" and "financial repression" coefficients are high (respectively low). Thus, our model may explain why some governments resort to seigniorage and inflationary finance, and others rather resort to high tax-rate, as result of maximizing-growth strategies in different structural enviroments (notably concerning tax evasion and financial repression). In addition, the model allows examining how the optimal mix of government finance changes in response to different public debt contexts.

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2005

La règle d'or des finances publiques : y a t-il un "free lunch"?

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Borrowing to Finance Public Investment? Sense and No-sense of the Golden Rule of Public Finance

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficits, Endogenous Growth and Non-linear Effects of Fiscal Policy

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2019

Public debt versus Environmental debt: What are the relevant Tradeoffs?

Mohamed Boly, Jean-Louis Combes, Pascale Combes Motel, Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Fiscal Space and Endogenous Growth Cycles

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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The Peril of Fiscal Rules

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Public debt versus Environmental debt: What are the relevant Tradeoffs?

Mohamed Boly, Jean-Louis Combes, Pascale Combes Motel, Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Increasing Returns, Balanced-Budget Rules, and Aggregate Fluctuations

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Endogenous fluctuations and the balanced - budget rule: taxes versus spending - based adjustment

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Endogenous fluctuations and the balanced-budget rule: taxes versus spending-based adjustment

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Endogenous fluctuations and the balanced-budget rule: taxes versus spending-based adjustment

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Endogenous fluctuations and the balanced-budget rule: taxes versus spending-based adjustment

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Public Debt, Fiscal Space and Endogenous Growth Cycles

Alexandru Minea, Maxime Menuet, Patrick Villieu

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2009

Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy; the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Taxes, Deficit and Economic Growth: the Laffer Curve Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2008

Taxes, Deficit and Economic Growth: the Laffer Curve Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Some New Insights Into Currency Boards: Evidence from Bulgaria

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault

Résumé non disponible.

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Some New Insights Into Currency Boards: Evidence from Bulgaria

Alexandru Minea, Christophe Rault

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Taxes, Deficit and Economic Growth: the Laffer Curve Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Thresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Thresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2007

Investissement public et effets non linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Investissement public et effets non-linéaires des déficits budgétaires

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficits, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-OFF in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2006

Thresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Thresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-In-Advance Endogenous Growth Model

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Threshold Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a Simple Cash-in-Advance Endogenous Growth Model

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Thresholds Effects in Monetary and Fiscal Policies in a simple Cash-in-Advance Endogenous Growth Model

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Long-Run Monetary and Fiscal Policy Trade-Off in an Endogenous Growth Model with Transaction Costs

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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2005

Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the Golden Rule of Public Finance Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Borrowing to Finance Public Investment? Sense and No-Sense of the Golden Rule of Public Finance

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Borrowing to Finance Public Investment? Sense and No-Sense of the GRPF

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficits, Growth and Indeterminacy: The Golden Rule of Public Finance Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficits, Endogenous Growth and Non-linear Effects of Fiscal Policy

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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Persistent Deficit, Growth and Indeterminacy: the GRPF Revisited

Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu

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