Bridging the Gap between the Short and the Long Run in Macroeconomics: Outline of the GSMS-SS Model of Economic Growth and the Business Cycle
Antony P Mueller
Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) - Universidade Federal de Sergipe
February 12, 2014
Abstract:
The GSMS-SS model shows under which conditions
credit-driven economic expansions are unsustainable and how such booms
revert into busts. If central banks pursue a policy of inflation
targeting and prevent deflation from happening when technological
progress would lower the price level, they instigate an unsustainable
boom and face malicious deflation in the bust phase of the business
cycle instead of benign deflation that would have come without
intervention. Credit-based economic expansions can go on when
accompanied by technological progress. Yet when the pace of productivity
gains lags behind monetary expansion, the boom reverts into
deflationary contraction. The model links the concept of natural
production frontier to steady state of the standard economic growth
model with exogenous technological progress and demonstrates how
expansive monetary and fiscal policy provokes a boom bust cycle when it
moves the economy beyond its steady state.
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