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When asset markets are incomplete there are almost always many Pareto improving policy interventions. Remarkably, these interventions do not involve adding any new markets. Focusing on tax policy, I create a framework for proving the existence of Pareto improving taxes, for computing them, and...
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The paper explores the implications of means of payment substitutability and capital mobility on the properties of the money demand, using the Thomas (1985) stochastic dynamic optimising model, where the specific role of money is explicitly accounted for. Extending the model to a case in which...
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This paper examines the optimal (first-best) fiscal policy in a stochastic representative agent model that exhibits a ``keeping up with the Joneses'' utility function and imperfectly competitive product markets. We find that the optimal labor tax is a constant, whose sign is determined by the...
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controversies surrounding the exchange rate forecastability and the absence of money in models of inflation …
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By placing store-level price data into bivariate Structural VAR models of inflation and relative price asymmetry, this … forecast error variance in inflation at the 12-month horizon. While the contemporaneous correlation between inflation and … relative price asymmetry is positive, idiosyncratic shocks lead to a substantial build-up in inflation only after two to five …
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In this paper, we study the statistical relationship between money and prices in Argentina during the last quarter of the 20th century. We first look at the unit root characteristics of the series which suggest dividing the whole sample into two sub-samples: 1976 to 1989 and 1991 to 2001, as...
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sub indexes’ inflation dynamics indicate that the exchange rate pass-through in the perfectly competitive sector is … sector. Also, that inflation inertia is lower in the former than in the latter; adding up in more volatility of the perfectly … competitive inflation rate. For policy makers an interesting feature of the perfectly competitive price index is that the evidence …
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This paper develops a model which can explain the hump-shaped impulse response of inflation to a monetary shock. A …). Nevertheless, we can show that inflation is hump-shaped under a reasonable range of parameters. It will be also shown that, in … order for inflation to be hump-shaped, sticky wages and variable capital utilization are important as well as dynamic …
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Forecasting inflation remains an intriguing research topic among academics and practitioners alike. Recent studies by … or other macroeconomic and financial variables for the purpose of forecasting inflation. In particular, it is found that … Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) for forecasting inflation. Based upon the idea of model averaging, the BACE …
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One of the key inputs for inflation targeting regime is the right identification of inflationary or disinflationary … gap an inflation rate (Phillips Curve) and structural restrictions over output stochastic dynamics. The estimation is … problems and exhibits more relation with the Peruvian inflation process than other estimates, calculated with the Hodrick …
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