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productivity, investment-specific productivity, government spending and money demand shocks, are unable to push nominal bond rates …
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Using a monetary search model, Rocheteau, Rupert and Wright (2007) show that the relationship between inflation and unemployment can be positive or negative depending on the primitives of the model. The key features are indivisible labor, nonseparable preferences and bargaining. Their results...
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From 1870 to 2000, the workweek length of employed persons decreased by 41 per cent in industrialized countries. The employment rate, employment per working age person, displays large movements but no clear secular pattern. This motivated the question: What accounts for the large decrease in the...
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indexed to the nominal price and, as a result, their investment is more sensitive to nominal price shocks. We also find that … economies with higher price-level uncertainty are less vulnerable to a price shock of a given magnitude, that is, aggregate … investment and output respond to a lesser degree. -- Economic models ; Monetary policy framework ; Financial 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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shock and the supply side effects of monetary policy. Second, the existence of real money balance effects causes higher …
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Using Bayesian methods, we estimate a small open economy model in which consumers face limits to credit determined by the value of their housing stock. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the role of collateralized household debt in the Canadian business cycle. Our findings show that the...
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1970Q1 to 2009Q2 containing 108 U.S. macroeconomic and financial time series, I find that a monetary policy shock during …, consumption, and investment than it has during “normal” times. Differences in effects among the regimes seem to originate from non …
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economy. A positive credit shock, defined as a rise in the loan-to-deposit ratio, increases output, consumption, hours and … productivity, and reduces the spread between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent …
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We construct a small-open-economy, New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with real-financial linkages to analyze the effects of financial shocks and macroprudential policies on the Canadian economy. Our model has four key features. First, it allows for non-trivial...
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