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Economy of Vietnam
McCarty, Adam - EconWPA - 2001
economy was thoroughly undermined. The collapse of trading relations with the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA … the urban household services economy, which offset the increase in the numbers of unemployed. The shift to markets was … Western markets without difficulty. During the 1990s the economy of Viet Nam underwent a transformation. Structural changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118775
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Central Bank Purchases of Private Assets
Williamson, Stephen D. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2014
A model is constructed in which consumers and banks have incentives to fake the quality of collateral. Conventional monetary easing can exacerbate these problems, in that the mispresentation of collateral becomes more profitable, thus increasing haircuts and interest rate differentials. Central...
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Monetary and fiscal theories of the price level: the irreconcilable differences
McCallum, Bennett T.; Nelson, Edward - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2006
The fiscal theory of the price level (FTPL) has attracted much attention but disagreement remains concerning its defining characteristics. Some writers have emphasized implications regarding interest-rate pegging and determinacy of RE solutions, whereas others have stressed its capacity to...
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CLAVES DE LA INFLACION DE 2005
Marongiu, Federico - EconWPA - 2005
El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
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Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theorectical Underpinnings and Challenges
Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2003
Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theoretical Underpinnings and Challenges Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, The Levy Economics Institute and Leeds University Abstract This paper presents two issues: first, an effort to decipher the type of economic analysis and...
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The Fed’s Consistent Monetary Policy: A Long Term Perspective
Los, Cornelis A. - EconWPA - 2004
discusses the Fed's actual track record and the state of the US economy in which the Fed operated and how the Fed's policies … the author at the Second International Conference on Forecasting the Singapore Economy and Annual Review of Central …
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Monetary Policy Strategies of the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S.
Wray, L. Randall; Sardoni, C. - EconWPA - 2005
In the debate on monetary policy strategies on both sides of the Atlantic, it is now almost a commonplace to contrast the Fed and the ECB by pointing out the former’s flexibility and capacity to adjust rigidity, and the latter’s extreme caution, and obsession with low inflation. In looking...
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Government debt, output, and asymmetric information
Haslag, Joseph H.; Betts, D.C. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 1987
Recent explanation of monetary policy and its effect have centered upon a non-cooperative game involving the monetary authority and the private sector. Notably absent from the discussion of asymmetric information and its impact on decision making is fiscal policy. This note examines a simple...
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Do productivity growth, budget deficits, and monetary policy actions affect real interest rates? evidence from macroeconomic announcement data
Kliesen, Kevin L.; Schmid, Frank A. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2004
economy that is not in the pubic domain and, hence, priced in the real long-term interest rate. …
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Optimal monetary and fiscal policies in a search theoretic model of monetary exchange
Gomis-Porqueras, Pere; Peralta-Alva, Adrian - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2008
In this paper we study optimal monetary and fiscal policies, and the welfare costs of inflation, within the Lagos and Wright (2005) framework. Monetary equilibria may be inefficient without fiscal policy tools due to bargaining frictions. We show that subsidies in decentralized markets can be...
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