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The subjective inflation expectations of households and firms : measurement, determinants, and implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013271201
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The subjective inflation expectations of households and firms : measurement, determinants, and implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269793
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Is the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level Learnable?
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2010
This paper presents a prototype model for development of the fiscal theory of the price level.' In this simple setting, the fiscal theory's distinctiveness relies upon adoption of a bubble solution, rather than the rational-expectations fundamentals solution. The paper then shows that the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136352
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Indeterminacy, Bubbles, and the Fiscal Theory of Price Level Determination
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2021
The recently-developed fiscal theory of price level determination contends that there is an important class of policy rules in which there exists a unique rational expectations solution that shows the price level to be dependent upon fiscal policy and independent of monetary variables. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215355
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Inflation Targeting and the Liquidity Trap
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2021
This paper considers whether 'liquidity trap' issues have important bearing on the desirability of inflation targeting … perspective, a quantitative open-economy model is developed and the likelihood of encountering a liquidity trap is explored for … several policy rules. Also, it is emphasized that, if the usual interest rate instrument is immobilized by a liquidity trap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222228
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Does Policy Communication During Covid Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830487
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Does Policy Communication During COVID work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831589
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Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy Effects : A Review of the Debate
McCallum, Bennett T. - 1985
This paper reviews empirical findings, econometric issues,and theoretical results bearing upon the "monetary vs. fiscal policy" debate that began with the 1963 Friedrnan-Meiselman study.The main substantive conclusions are not very dramatic.The clearest is that an open-market increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477529
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Does Policy Communication During Covid Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481579
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Is the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level Learnable?
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2003
This paper presents a prototype model for development of the fiscal theory of the price level.' In this simple setting, the fiscal theory's distinctiveness relies upon adoption of a bubble solution, rather than the rational-expectations fundamentals solution. The paper then shows that the fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468736