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A transitional analysis of the welfare cost of inflation

Burdick, Clark A. - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 1997

to hold a fiat currency as insurance against idiosyncratic income fluctuations. Rather than comparing steady state …

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A state-level analysis of the Great Moderation

Owyang, Michael T.; Piger, Jeremy M.; Wall, Howard J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2007

the origin of the aggregate volatility reduction. We show that states with relatively high concentrations in the durable-goods …

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International evidence on the stability of the optimizing IS equation

Kara, Amit; Nelson, Edward - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2004

In this paper we provide international evidence on the issue of whether the optimizing IS equation is more stable than a backward-looking alternative. The international evidence consist of estimates of IS equations on quarterly data for the UK and Australia, both for the full sample of the last...

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Modest policy interventions

Leeper, Eric M.; Zha, Tao - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 2003

The authors present a theoretical and empirical framework for computing and evaluating linear projections conditional on hypothetical paths of monetary policy. A modest policy intervention does not significantly shift agents' beliefs about policy regime and does not induce the changes in...

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Inflation and economic activity in a multiple matching model of money

Laing, Derek; Li, Victor E.; Wang, Ping - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 1998

-theoretic environment with divisible money and goods. We find that in such a setting, a positive feedback between work and shopping effort …This paper investigates the relationship between money growth, inflation, and productive activity in a general … equilibrium model where search frictions motivate the transactions role of money. The use of a multiple matching technique, where …

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The stability of interest rate processes

Bliss, Robert R.; Smith, David C. - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 1997

This paper presents a careful reexamination of Chan, Karolyi, Longstaff, and Sanders (CKLS 1992). By redefining the possible regime shift period in line with evidence from known policy changes and past empirical research, we find evidence that contradicts the major results in their paper. The...

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The efficient market hypothesis and identification in structural VARs

Sarno, Lucio; Thornton, Daniel L. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2003

Structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models are commonly used to investigate the effect of structural shocks on economic variables. The identifying restrictions imposed in many of these exercises have been criticized in the literature. This paper extends this literature by showing that if the...

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Kalman filtering with truncated normal state variables for Bayesian estimation of macroeconomic models

Dueker, Michael - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2006

A pair of simple modifications-in the forecast error and forecast error variance-to the Kalman filter recursions makes possible the filtering of models in which one or more state variables is truncated normal and latent. Such recursions are broadly applicable to macroeconometric models, such as...

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Macroeconomic fluctuations in Europe: demand or supply, permanent or temporary?

Hartley, Peter R.; Joseph A. Whitt, Jr. - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - 1997

We use generalized method of moments to estimate a rational expectations aggregate demand-aggregate supply macroeconomic model for five European economies. Our aim is to examine whether supply or demand shocks have predominated in the major European economies during the post-war era and whether...

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An approximate dual-self model and paradoxes of choice under risk

Fudenberg, Drew; Levine, David K.; Maniadis, Zacharias - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2012

We derive a simplified version of the model of Fudenberg and Levine [2006, 2011] and show how this approximate model is useful in explaining choice under risk. We show that in the simple case of three outcomes, the model can generate indifference curves that “fan out” in the Marshack-Machina...

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