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Christiano, Lawrence J.; Gust, Christopher; Roldos, Jorge E. - 2021

What are the economic effects of an interest rate cut when an economy is in the midst of a financial crisis? Under what … ffects? We answer these questions in a general class of open economy models, where a financial crisis is modeled as a time … the traded good sector and in adjusting the rate at which that output can be used in other parts of the economy, then a …

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The Great Depression and the Friedman-Schwartz Hypothesis

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Motto, Roberto; Rostagno, Massimo - 2022

We evaluate the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis that a more accommodative monetary policy could have greatly reduced the severity of the Great Depression. To do this, we first estimate a dynamic, general equilibrium model using data from the 1920s and 1930s. Although the model includes eight...

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Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model

Chari, Varadarajan V. - 2012

This paper develops the quantitative implications of optimal fiscal policy in a business cycle model. In a stationary equilibrium the ex ante tax rate on capital income is approximately zero. There is an equivalence class of ex post capital income tax rates and bond policies that support a given...

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Government Policy, Credit Markets and Economic Activity

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2011

The US government has recently conducted large scale purchases of assets and implemented policies that reduced the cost of funds to financial institutions. Arguably these policies have helped to correct credit market dysfunctions, allowing interest rate spreads to shrink and output to begin a...

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Taylor Rules in a Limited Participation Model

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Gust, Christopher - 2021

rules for setting the rate of interest. Rules are evaluated according to their ability to protect the economy from bad …

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Involuntary unemployment and the business cycle

Christiano, Lawrence J.; Trabrandt, Mathias; Walentin, Karl - 2012

Can a model with limited labor market insurance explain standard macro- and labor market data jointly? We seek to construct a monetary model in which: i) the unemployed are worse off than the employed, i.e. unemployment is involuntary and ii) the labor force participation rate varies with the...

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Monetary Policy and Stock Market Booms

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2010

that an interest rate rule that is too narrowly focused on inflation destabilizes asset markets and the broader economy …

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Involuntary Unemployment and the Business Cycle

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2014

We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official U.S. definition of unemployment: people without jobs who are (1) currently making concrete efforts to find work and (2) willing and able to work. In addition, our model has the property that people searching for jobs are...

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Shocks, Structures or Monetary Policies? The Euro Area and Us after 2001

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2008

The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates more vigorously in the recent recession than the European Central Bank did. By comparison with the Fed, the ECB followed a more measured course of action. We use an estimated dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions to show that...

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Optimal Monetary Policy in a 'Sudden Stop'

Braggion, Fabio - 2010

In the wake of the 1997-98 financial crises, interest rates in Asia were raised immediately, and then reduced sharply. We describe an environment in which this is the optimal monetary policy. The optimality of the immediate rise in the interest rate is an example of the theory of the second...

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