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This paper re-investigates the implications of monetary policy rules on changes in exchange rate, in a risk-adjusted, uncovered interest parity model with unrestricted parameters, emphasizing the importance of modeling market expectations of monetary policy. I use consensus forecasts as a proxy...
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econometric learning scheme as proposed by Laubach, Tetlow, and Williams (2007) in the estimation and compare the results to those … form their expectations according to the learning approach. …
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learning model. The first section develops a dynamic model combining asset accumulation and learning to explain the parents … child's ability. The model infers that, with enough time spent learning, information can improve parents' welfare. This can … investigates college saving behavior when learning is present. Data suggest pessimistic and/or rich parents might reduce the level …
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The recent crisis in the United States has often been associated with substantial amounts of policy uncertainty. In this paper we ask how uncertainty about fiscal policy affects the impact of fiscal policy changes on the economy when the government tries to counteract a deep recession. The...
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What are the effects of a higher central bank inflation target on the burden of real public debt? Several recent proposals have suggested that even a moderate increase in the inflation target can have a pronounced effect on real public debt. We consider this question in a New Keynesian model...
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equilibrium dynamics resulting from this learning process helps to explain the main stylized facts of free-floating exchange rates … the GA algorithm (i.e. utilitybased versus rank-based or tournament selection, binary or real coding). However, appearance … the number of agents (not more than about 1000). With a larger population, this collective learning dynamics looses its …
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experts and the learning (or "absorptive") capacity of the domestic economy. …
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Empirical evidence suggests that a monetary shock induces the exchange rate to overshoot its long-run level. The estimated magnitude and timing of the overshooting, however, varies across studies. This paper generates delayed overshooting in a new Keynesian model of a small open economy by...
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In February 1998 a work was published in the series of discussion papers produced by the Bundesbank which was concemed with problems of measuring inflation in Gerrnany. This paper met with a lively response. The Research Group of the Bundesbank therefore staged a workshop on this subject at...
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