expansionary policy
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policy
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɒl.ə.si/us/ˈpɑː.lə.si/
a set of ideas or a plan of what to do in particular situations that has been agreed to officially by a group of people, a business organization, a government, or a ...
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That motion dealt with local government and called for anexpansionarypolicyof local government expenditure.
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All that is before they take further risks withexpansionarypolicy, to try to win an election that is already lost.
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What are the arguments against a less contractionary or moreexpansionarypolicy?
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Balance of payments crises continued, which made continuation of anexpansionarypolicyimpossible.
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A single currency has the advantage thatexpansionarypolicycould be pursued.
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In our view, a moreexpansionarypolicywill become increasingly necessary as unemployment mounts to intolerable heights, and that will have to be accompanied by a pay policy.
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Anexpansionarypolicyincreases the size of the money supply more rapidly, or decreases the interest rate.
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Expansionarypolicyrises the stock prices of the firm, which increases the net worth of the company.
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These expansionary policies in a strategic part of the real economy were coupled with large fiscal deficits.
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Similarly, it can be argued that whenexpansionarypolicyrises the stock prices, it automatically also rises the value of the financial wealth of a household and consumption will increase.
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Expansionarypolicyis traditionally used to try to combat unemployment in a recession by lowering interest rates in the hope that easy credit will entice businesses into expanding.
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The traditional opportunistic model of the political business cycle suggests that office-seeking politicians have incentives to employ expansionary policies before elections.
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Rising levels of trade integration were transferring a higher portion of demand abroad and therefore lowering the real effects of internally engineered expansionary policies.
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Among partisan veto players, there is an inherent bias for all the coalition partners to pursue expansionary policies through logrolling.
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Higher upward price flexibility limits the stimulus effects of expansionary policies on real output.
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This alone indicates that governments should adopt suitable expansionary policies to ameliorate the potential impact of external shocks and certainly should not use severe contractionary policies to counter in-ation.
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We pursued moderate and carefully-thought-out demand expansionary policies.
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Yet there is widespread fear that more expansionary policies would simply rekindle inflation instead of leading to sustainable growth.
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With the prevailing heavy unemployment the advocates of expansionary policies have again become vocal, even vociferous.
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Growth from expansionary policies would, on past experience, be inflationary, short-lived and lead to the familiar grinding stop.
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