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nominal policy interest rate and the CPI inflation rate decline during housing booms and rise as house prices fall. These … demonstrate that stronger policy responses to inflation amplify housing-market boom-bust cycles. Also, higher loan-to-value ratios … stability ; Inflation targets …
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The relationships among the quantity theory of money, monetarism and policy regimes based on money-growth and inflation … significance for the behaviour of output and inflation. It is argued that the active view is more plausible, on both theoretical …
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Japanese economic activity has been stagnant since the collapse of the speculative asset-price bubble in 1990, despite highly expansionary monetary policy which has brought interest rates down to record low levels. Although several reasons have been put forward to explain the sustained weakness...
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With the demise of monetary targeting over the past 20 years in many major countries, the question has arisen as to whether central banks should look at money at all when formulating and conducting monetary policy. The author argues that the mainstream paradigm, which gives no useful role to...
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The purpose of our paper is to examine the profitability and social desirability of both domestic and foreign mergers in a location-quantity competition model, where we allow for the possibility of hollowing-out of the target firm. We refer to hollowing-out as the situation where the target firm...
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We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because …
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inflation and output dynamics in the United States. In particular, I find that real money balance effects are quantitatively …
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Real wage rigidities have recently been proposed as a way of building intrinsic persistence in inflation within the … and inflation in the New Keynesian Phillips curve. From a methodological perspective, these results derive from our … Curves hold promise empirically and provide interesting research directions. -- Inflation and prices ; Labour markets …
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The financial crisis of 200709 has highlighted the importance of developments in financial conditions for real economic activity. The authors estimate the effect of current and past shocks to financial variables on U.S. GDP growth by constructing two growthbased financial conditions indexes...
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