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This policy brief warns about the risks of discontinuing the policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis by pursuing exit strategies too early and/or too sharply. It outlines a comprehensive strategy for limiting such risks globally and offers an in-depth discussion of the European situation. Due to...
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Thia paper analyzes U.S. monetary-financial policy in the period leading up to the Treasury-Fed Accord. We model policy as an implicit target zone for the price level and an explicit zone for interest rates, and the difficulties on the eve of the Accord as an incipient run on a collapsing...
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In this paper we reassess the cyclical performance of the French economy in the 1920s, focusing in particular on the … exports as a share of GDP turned down as early as 1928, the economy continued to expand for several subsequent years …. Investment, not exports, emerges as the proximate source of the French economy's resistance to the Great Depression. And fiscal …
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The Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Credit Crisis of the 2000s had similar causes but elicited strikingly different policy responses. It may still be too early to assess the effectiveness of current policy responses, but it is possible to analyze monetary and fiscal policies in the...
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The Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Credit Crisis of the 2000s had similar causes but elicited strikingly different policy responses. It may still be too early to assess the effectiveness of current policy responses, but it is possible to analyze monetary and fiscal policies in the...
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Abstract. We study the functioning of a system in the presence of the zero lower bound constraint on the nominal interest rate under the assumption that agents have limited cognitive capabilities. In order to do so, we employ a micro founded heterogeneous expectations New Keynesian model in...
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