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Instrumental variables (IV) estimation of a demand equation using time series data is shown to produce a weighted average derivative of heterogeneous potential demand functions. This result adapts recent work on the causal interpretation of two-stage least squares estimates to the simultaneous...
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money and various measures of aggregate output. Our second example investigates the possibility that temporal aggregation …
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In this paper, our aim is to develop an alternative approach to analyzing a macroeconomic model where markets do not clear. Earlier approaches have had difficulties in interpreting effective demand, a key concept in disequilibrium macroeconomics. We propose a new definition of effective demand...
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of these is the large and growing literature on precautionary saving that examines how consumption growth and saving … expected consumption growth and uncertainty in consumption growth, with a slope coefficient that is a function of the … (and the coefficient of relative risk aversion) from regressions of consumption growth on uncertainty in consumption growth …
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This paper studies managerial decisions about investment in long-run projects in the presence of imperfect information … imperfection present and the direction of the distortion. When investors cannot observe the level of investment in long …-run projects, suboptimal investment will be induced. When investors can observe investment but not its productivity, however, an …
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It has recently been observed that when equations of motion for state variables are nonautonomous, optimal control problems involving Uzawa's endogenous rate of time preference cannot be solved using the change-of-variables method common in the literature. Instead, the problem must be solved by...
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The paper considers the implications of the rational expectations - New Classical Macroeconomics revolution for the "rules versus discretion" debate. The following issues are covered 1) The ineffectiveness of anticipated stabilization policy, 2) Non-causal models and rational expectations, 3)...
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This paper aims to provide a stochastic, rational expectations extension of Tobin's "Money and Income; Post Hoc Ergo … Proper Hoc?". It is well-known that money may Granger-cause real variables even though the joint density function of the real … of money to Granger-cause real variables does not preclude a stabilization role of money. In a number of examples the …
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optimizing behavior under rational expectations, both on the part of the purchasers of goods and upon that of the sellers. The …
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Why do we see nominal contracts in the presence of price level risk? To answer this question, this paper studies an overlapping generations model in which the equilibrium contract form is optimal, given the contracts elsewhere in the economy. Nominal contracts turn out to be optimal in the...
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