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## Overview
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This lecture builds on concepts and issues introduced in our lecture on **Money Supplies and Price Levels**.
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This lecture builds on concepts and issues introduced in our lecture on {doc}`money supplies and price levels<money_inflation>`.
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That lecture describes stationary equilibria that reveal a [*Laffer curve*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve) in the inflation tax rate and the associated stationary rate of return
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on currency.
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These outcomes are the essential finding of Sargent and Wallace's **unpleasant monetarist arithmetic** {cite}`sargent1981`.
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**Reader's Guide:** Please read our lecture on Money Supplies and Price levels before diving into this lecture.
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```{tip}
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Please read our lecture on {doc}`money supplies and price levels<money_inflation>` before diving into this lecture.
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```
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That lecture described supplies and demands for money that appear in lecture.
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It also characterized the steady state equilibrium from which we work backwards in this lecture.
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In addition to learning about ''unpleasant monetarist arithmetic", in this lecture we'll learn how to implement a **fixed point** algorithm for computing an initial price level.
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In addition to learning about **unpleasant monetarist arithmetic**, in this lecture we'll learn how to implement a *fixed point* algorithm for computing an initial price level.
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## Setup
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Let's start with quick reminders of the model's components set out in our lecture on **Money Supplies and Price Levels**.
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Let's start with quick reminders of the model's components set out in {doc}`money_inflation`.
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Please consult that lecture for more details and Python code that we'll also use in this lecture.
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## Monetary-Fiscal Policy
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To the basic model of our lecture on **Money Supplies and Price Levels**, we add inflation-indexed one-period government bonds as an additional way for the government to finance government expenditures.
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To the basic model of {doc}`money_inflation`, we add inflation-indexed one-period government bonds as an additional way for the government to finance government expenditures.
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Let $\widetilde R > 1$ be a time-invariant gross real rate of return on government one-period inflation-indexed bonds.
This equation says that the government (e.g., the central bank) can *decrease* $m_0$ relative to
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$\check m_0$ by *increasing* $B_{-1}$ relative to $\check B_{-1}$.
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This is a version of a standard constraint on a central bank's **open market operations** in which it expands the stock of money by buying government bonds from the public.
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This is a version of a standard constraint on a central bank's [**open market operations**](https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/openmarket.htm) in which it expands the stock of money by buying government bonds from the public.
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## An open market operation at $t=0$
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Following Sargent and Wallace (1981), we analyze consequences of a central bank policy that
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Following {cite:t}`sargent1981`, we analyze consequences of a central bank policy that
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uses an open market operation to lower the price level in the face of a persistent fiscal
where $\theta \in [0,1)$ is a relaxation parameter.
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## Example Calculations
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Since the public has less currency (it's supply has diminished) it is plausible to anticipate that the price level at time $0$ will be driven downward.
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But that is not the end of the story, because this ''open market operation'' at time $0$ has consequences for future settings of $m_{t+1}$ and the gross-of-interest government deficit $\bar g_t$.
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But that is not the end of the story, because this **open market operation** at time $0$ has consequences for future settings of $m_{t+1}$ and the gross-of-interest government deficit $\bar g_t$.
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Let's start with some imports:
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from collections import namedtuple
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Now let's dive in and implement our ''pseudo code'' in Python.
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Now let's dive in and implement our pseudo code in Python.
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