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Using a recently introduced nonparametric test, I investigate two important and distinct asymmetries in cross-country quarterly macroeconomic time series. Asymmetries are suggested by many theories (old and new), and those discovered aid in the selection of the appropriate nonlinear time series...
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This paper shows that there are striking implications that stem from including durable goods in otherwise conventional sticky price models. The behavior of these models depends heavily on whether durable goods are present and whether these goods have sticky prices. If long-lived durables have...
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modest short-run output gains, greater excess demand pressures, noticeably higher CPI inflation rates over the whole of the …
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This paper considers a sticky price model with a cash-in-advance constraint where agents forecast inflation rates with …. While average output and inflation result the same as under rational expectations, higher moments differ substantially …: output and inflation show persistence, inflation responds sluggishly to nominal disturbances, and the dynamic correlations of …
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Many macroeconomic models (including the NKPC - "New Keynesian" Phillips Curve) involve hybrid equations, in which some variables depend on both their lags and leads. Hybrid models have produced conflicting empirical results: GMM (respectively ML) estimation find the forward- looking component...
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In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
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An empirical link between inflation and price dispersion has been well established in goods and services markets – both …. Specifically, we examine the link between inflation and price dispersion in an empirical setting patently lacking the market … inflation-dispersion link in goods and services markets with a matched panel of equity market prices. Surprisingly, we find that …
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Under the guidance of different theories and the problem of dominance and activeness, this study gives a survey of the rapidly growing literature on Fiscal Theory of Price Level, which opens up new horizons in a non–Ricardian world and questions the effectiveness of monetary policy on price...
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The empirical evidence suggests that there is a significant, negative relationship between inflation and economic …. Therefore the technology of the financial sector influences the velocity of money, and consequently, how inflation affects … generates an inflation-growth effect whose magnitude falls in the range found by the empirical studies. Moreover, in contrast to …
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This paper discusses the econometric model of inflation processes in the Republic of Belarus which makes it possible to …
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