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We propose an integrated treatment of the problems of optimal monetary and fiscal policy, for an economy in which prices are sticky and the only available sources of government revenue are distorting taxes. Our linear-quadratic approach allows us to nest both conventional analyses of optimal...
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games, beauty contests, and their applications. We elaborate on the distinct effects of strategic uncertainty relative to … fundamental uncertainty. We demonstrate the potential fragility of workhorse macroeconomic models to relaxations of common …
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setting, an increase in uncertainty about future shocks causes significant contractions in the economy and may lead to non … outcomes. Fluctuations in uncertainty and the zero lower bound help our model match the unconditional and stochastic volatility …
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We investigate the relationship between uncertainty about monetary policy and its transmission mechanism, and economic …-order effect on their dynamics. The data favors a model with two unspanned volatility factors that capture uncertainty about … monetary policy and the term premium. Uncertainty contributes negatively to economic activity. Two dimensions of uncertainty …
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In this research, we provide new empirical evidence on the importance of time-varying uncertainty for the exchange rate … and the excess return in currency markets. Following an increase in monetary policy uncertainty, the dollar exchange rate …-varying uncertainty aimed at understanding these regularities. In the model, the behaviour of the exchange rate following nominal and real …
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's and Treasury-bond's ATMIV indices, which measure market and policy uncertainty, are counter-cyclical while the P/C index …
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("uncertainty"), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …
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dominate, in that public releases increase uncertainty about fundamentals. In some cases, public releases can create or …
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We study the design of optimal monetary policy under uncertainty in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. We … use a Markov jump-linear-quadratic (MJLQ) approach to study policy design, approximating the uncertainty by different … a benchmark New Keynesian model, analyzing how policy is affected by uncertainty, and how learning and active …
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). Finally, this class of rules is robust to model uncertainty, in the sense that a first-difference rule taken from the policy … rules are less robust to model uncertainty: rules with additional parameters can be fine-tuned to the dynamics of a …
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