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recognition to the intertemporal nature of households' saving decisions. Like traditional IS-LM, however, the optimizing version … tends to understate the value of money as an indicator for monetary policy. …
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operates and the rate of inflation it experiences. It also explores whether there are other properties of inflation, money, and … basis for our study is price, money, and output data for 15 countries that have operated under both types of monetary … we are able to establish several facts about the differences in inflation, money growth, and output growth between …
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Search-theoretic models of monetary exchange are based on explicit descriptions of the frictions that make money …% inflation can be worth between 3% and 5% of consumption. …
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This essay articulates the principles and practices of New Monetarism, our label for a recent body of work on money …
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body of recent work on money, banking, payments systems, asset markets, and related topics. A key principle in New … inflation, the relationship between money and capital accumulation, and the Phillips curve. We also extend the benchmark model …
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rate. Money’s role in monetary policy has been tertiary, at best. Indeed, several influential economists have suggested … that money is irrelevant for monetary policy. They suggest that central banks can control inflation by (i) controlling a … rate in order to exert greater control over longer-term rates. I offer an alternative perspective: namely, that money is …
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This article discusses a technical aspect of the Federal Reserve's monetary targeting procedure that has come to be known as "base drift." The Fed has been announcing larger ranges for the growth of M1 and other monetary aggregates since 1975. These ranges have been expressed in terms of rates...
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-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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inside and outside money does and does not allow the economy to achieve a first-best allocation of resources. We also study …
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