Monetarist arithmetic at COVID-19 time: a take on how not to misapply the quantity theory of money

The COVID-19 crisis has revived an old heated debate on whether significant increases in the money supply - such as the ones seen after the pandemic outbreak - ultimately lead to higher inflation. Some observers have alluded to the quantity theory of money for that purpose, though in our view, this...

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Main Author: Pinter, Julien Matthieu Albert (author)
Format: workingPaper
Language:eng
Published: 2021
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/74654
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/74654