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This paper provides a summary of current knowledge on inflation persistence and price stickiness in the euro area, based on research findings that have been produced in the context of the Inflation Persistence Network. The main findings are - i) Under the current monetary policy regime, the...
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stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence of labor income uncertainty and credit constraints. Saving in the model … saving rate's long-term decline, while fluctuations in net wealth and uncertainty capture the bulk of the business …We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent …
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output changes. In the euro area investment is the predominant driver of output changes, while in the U.S. consumption shifts … investment, as the proximate cause for this fact, the source of the consumption difference remains a puzzle. JEL Classification … several potential explanations for it. While the evidence seems to point at differences in consumption responses, rather than …
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Money demand is probably one of the most extensively studies economic relationships in applied economics. While useful …
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criticized for failing to explain common trends in money growth and inflation, and that therefore money should be used as a cross …
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investment from 1990 to 1999 through the cost-of-capital and the cash-flow channels. We compare several specifications of neo …
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This paper develops a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities, capital accumulation and finite lifetimes. The framework exhibits intergenerational wealth effects and is intended to investigate the macroeconomic implications of fiscal policy, which is specified by...
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The monetary integration of the acceding countries will proceed in several distinct steps, starting with membership in the European Union (EU), followed by participation in the so-called Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) II and ultimately entry into the euro area. This paper addresses the question...
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have stronger effects on output, consumption, and wages in the earlier sample. We try to account for this observation …
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