Showing 1 - 10 of 212
The recession under way in the European Union and the threat of deflation have spawned increasing frequent calls for modification of the Stability and Growth Pact. The present article confirms the negative correlation of the rate of real output growth with that of increase in current public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125875
adaptive expectations and partial adjustment mechanisms. The paper demonstrates the difficulty of interpreting distributed lag …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076678
rational expectations. This paper relaxes the assumption of rational expectations and it allows for learning instead. Economic … agents form expectations from simple models and update the parameters through constant-gain learning. I estimate the model by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126467
expectations to match the inertia in the data and to improve the fit of estimated New Keynesian Phillips curves. The empirical … results show that when learning replaces the assumption of fully rational expectations, structural sources of persistence in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412860
and inflation indexation, that are typically needed in monetary models with rational expectations to match the persistence … replaces rational expectations, the estimated degrees of habits and indexation drop near zero. This finding suggests that … persistence arises in the model economy mainly from expectations and learning. The posterior model probabilities show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561139
This paper investigates whether expectations of trustworthiness and resulting acts of trust accord with an objective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118769
maturities. An empirical examination reveals that survey expectations about in°ation, output growth and the anticipated path of …-looking monetary policy rule support the assertion that the central bank preemptively reacts to in°ationary expectations while … suggesting patience in accommodating real output growth expectations. Models of this type may provide traders and policymakers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076986
This paper explores whether habit formation in the representative agent’s preferences can explain two failures of the standard permanent income model: the sensitivity to lagged consumer sentiment, and to predictable changes in income. I show that in a habit formation model, the sensitivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561179
taxes when financed either raising capital taxation or reducing unemployment subsidies. We find two main results: (i) with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412655
Most measures of vulnerability are a-theoretic and essentially static. In this paper we use a stochastic Ramsey model to find a household's optimal welfare and we measure vulnerability as the shortfall from the welfare attained if the household consumed permanently at the poverty line. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556097