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Does Responsive Pricing Smooth Demand Shocks?

Courty, Pascal; Pagliero, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Using data from a unique pricing experiment, we investigate Vickrey’s conjecture that responsive pricing can be used to smooth both predictable and unpredictable demand shocks. Our evidence shows that increasing the responsiveness of price to demand conditions reduces the magnitude of...

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

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Distributional Impact of Commodity Price Shocks: Australia over a Century

Bhattacharyya, Sambit; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

. Using a GARCH model, we find that Australia experienced more volatility than many commodity exporting poor countries between …

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Credit, Financial Stability, and the Macroeconomy

Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...

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Comparing Inflation and Price Level Targeting: the Role of Forward Guidance and Transparency

Honkapohja, Seppo; Mitra, Kaushik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We examine global dynamics under learning in New Keynesian models with price level targeting that is subject to the zero lower bound. The role of forward guidance is analyzed under transparency about the policy rule. Properties of transparent and non-transparent regimes are compared to each...

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in an Economy with Endogenous Public Debt

Luk, Paul; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper uses a New Keynesian framework to study the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies, in response to an inflation shock when the policymaker acts with commitment. We first show that, in the simplest New Keynesian model, fiscal policy plays no part in the optimal policy response,...

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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in an Economy with Inflation Persistence

Luk, Paul; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies a simple New-Keynesian model of fiscal and monetary policy coordination when the policymaker acts under commitment. With a New Keynesian Phillips curve it is optimal to control inflation only through the use of monetary policy. But, when price-setters use a Steinsson (2003)...

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Bubbles and Central Banks: Historical Perspectives

Brunnermeier, Markus K; Schnabel, Isabel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper reviews some of the most prominent asset price bubbles from the past 400 years and documents how central banks (or other institutions) reacted to those bubbles. The historical evidence suggests that the emergence of bubbles is often preceded or accompanied by an expansionary monetary...

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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Stagflation

Kilian, Lutz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

One of the central questions in recent macroeconomic history is to what extent monetary policy as opposed to oil price shocks contributed to the stagflation of the 1970s. Understanding what went wrong in the 1970s is the key to learning from the past. One explanation explored in Barsky and...

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A Gains from Trade Perspective on Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Beaudry, Paul; Portier, Franck - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into the potential mechanisms driving economic...

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