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Remarks at the New Jersey Bankers Association Economic Forum, Iselin, New Jersey.
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Remarks at the Center for the New Economy 2010 Economic Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Countries' concerns about the value of their currency have been studied and documented extensively in the literature. Capital controls can be—and often are—used as a tool to manage exchange rate fluctuations. This paper investigates whether countries can benefit from using such a tool. We...
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Cutting government spending on goods and services increases the budget deficit if the nominal interest rate is close to zero. This is the message of a simple but standard New Keynesian DSGE model calibrated with Bayesian methods. The cut in spending reduces output and thus—holding rates for...
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As of May 1988, over 8 million workers had received their pension benefits as lump-sum distributions (LSDs) when they changed jobs. In 1986 Congress imposed a 10% tax penalty on the amount of LSDs not rolled over into tax-deferred instruments. This paper examines the effects of this tax penalty...
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Originally appeared in the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis Review, July 1975
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