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Understanding the features and the determinants of individual price setting behaviour is important for the formulation of monetary policy. These behavioural mechanisms play a fundamental role in influencing the characteristics of aggregate inflation and in determining how monetary policy affects...
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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
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Revitalizing the Jamaican Economy: Policies for Sustained Growth aims to improve our understanding of the constraints to social and economic development in Jamaica. It also proposes practical solutions to overcome some of those problems. This book is a collection of studies commissioned by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895467
This paper studies the gain from using money as an indicator when monetary policy in made under data uncertainty. We … state of the economy. Money reveals some of the private sector’s information to the policymaker, especially if there is a … forward looking element in money demand. We show that observing money can considerably reduce the loss that is due to …
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The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … criticism for this decision. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard … decades. In this paper, we develop a justification for including money in the interest rate rule by allowing for imperfect …
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criticized for failing to explain common trends in money growth and inflation, and that therefore money should be used as a cross …
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This paper uses a data-set including time series data on macroeconomic variables, loans, deposits and interest rates for the euro area in order to study the features of financial intermediation over the business cycle. We find that stylized facts for aggregate monetary and real variables are...
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there is full recognition of the intertemporal nature of households’ saving decisions. The optimizing version of IS … IS-LM framework tends to understate the value of money as an indicator for monetary policy. …
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The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … criticism for this decision. In this paper, we explore possible justifications. The case against including money in the central … contributions to research on monetary policy in the last two decades. Of course, if one allows for a direct effect of money on …
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This Paper shows that price rigidity evolves in an economy populated by imperfectly rational agents who experiment with alternative rules of thumb. In the model, firms must set their prices in the face of aggregate shocks. The payoff depends on the level of aggregate demand, as well as on their...
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