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propositions of modern asset pricing theory, namely, that the interaction between risk averse agents in a competitive market leads …-markets model, and the Sharpe-Lintner-Mossin Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). This framework enabled us to measure how far our … discovered swift convergence towards equilibrium prices of Arrow and Debreu's model or the CAPM. This discovery is significant …
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The theory and the data in this Paper challenge the view that there is no structure in prices and allocations when … markets are off equilibrium. Starting from the observation that price-taking usually applies only to small orders, a theory of … imbalance. In the context of mean-variance preferences, the theory predicts that a security’s price will correlate with excess …
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We study a production economy with multiple sectors financed by issuing securities to agents who face capital constraints. Binding capital constraints propagate business cycles, and a reduction of the interest rate can increase the required return of high-haircut assets since it can increase the...
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how central bank preferences (and thereby monetary policy) affect the relation between nominal interest rates, inflation … estimated by maximum likelihood on quarterly US data. The policy experiments include stronger inflation targeting, more active …
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A simple test of inflation target credibility is constructed by subtracting the maximum and minimum inflation rates … consistent with the inflation targets from the yields to maturity on nominal bonds. This results in a target-consistent range of … absolute credibility and credibility in expectation, are distinguished. The credibility of inflation targets of Canada, New …
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We use evidence from the term structure of inflation expectations implicit in the nominal yields and survey forecasts … of inflation to address the question of whether or not monetary policy is effective. We construct a model that …-neutral, subjective, and objective probability measures. We extract private sector expectations of inflation from this model and establish …
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This Paper estimates a small New-Keynesian model with imperfect information and optimal discretionary policy using data for the euro area. The model is used to assess the usefulness of monetary aggregates and unit labour costs as information variables for monetary policy. The estimates reveal...
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stable rates of inflation in many countries. Consequently, the main goal of this Paper is to offer an overview of the main … policy issues arising in a low inflation environment and their practical relevance so as to identify the main challenges … nominal wage or price rigidities? What does the low inflation environment imply about the relative importance and effects of …
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model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …
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competitiveness. A formal theory of inflation in the euro-zone based on an open-economy version of the New Keynesian model is used to … shown that, in effect, this is an inflation tax, requiring high inflation countries to make transfers to low inflation …
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