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A demonstration that optimal monetary policy can be either procyclical or countercyclical in a model where wages are …
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The authors’ model, embodying moderate amounts of nominal rigidities, accounts for the observed inertia in inflation and persistence in output. The key features of their model are those that prevent a sharp rise in marginal costs after an expansionary shock to monetary policy. Of these...
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A reconsideration of the role of monetary policy in a multiperiod sticky-wage model that incorporates rational expectations and displays the natural rate property.
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This paper revisits the phenomenon of stagflation. Using a standard New Keynesian dynamic, stochastic general equilibrium model, we show that stagflation from monetary policy alone is a very common occurrence when the economy is subject to both deviations from the policy rule and a drifting...
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We estimate a monetary policy rule for the US allowing for possible frequency dependence—i.e., allowing the central bank to respond differently to more persistent innovations than to more transitory innovations, in both the unemployment rate and the inflation rate. Our estimation method uses...
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This paper debunks the common perception that “foreclosure will ruin your credit score.” Using individual-level data from a credit bureau matched with loan-level mortgage data, it is estimated that the very first missed mortgage payment leads to the biggest reduction in credit scores. The...
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We document sectoral differences in changes in output, hours worked, prices, and nominal wages in the United States …. One sector is assumed to have flexible nominal wages, while nominal wages in the other sector are set using Taylor …. Alternatively, if wages are set using Calvo-type contracts, the decline in output is even smaller. …
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Changes in the fraction of workers experiencing job separations can account for most of the increase in earnings dispersion that occurred both between, as well as within educational groups in the United States from the mid-1970s to the mid- 1980s. This is not true of changes in average earnings...
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