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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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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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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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the origin of the aggregate volatility reduction. We show that states with relatively high concentrations in the durable-goods …
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We study macroeconomic systems with forward-looking private sector agents and a monetary authority that is trying to control the economy through the use of a linear policy feedback rule. A typical finding in the burgeoning literature in this area is that policymakers should be relatively...
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In this paper, we present a dynamic optimizing model that allows explicitly for imperfect substitutability between different financial assets. This is specified in a manner which captures Tobin's (1969) view that an expansion of one asset's supply affects both the yield on that asset and the...
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determined by steady-state money growth. Woodford instead argues that the intercept term in the monetary authority's interest …, according to which it is appropriate to regard steady-state inflation as determined by steady-state money growth. The argument … the money growth rate. …
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In the classical macroeconomic models constructed by Lucas (1972, 1975) and Barro (1976), monetary aggregates are assumed to be generated by a logarithmic random walk. This specification implies that all monetary growth is (a) unanticipated and (b) permanent.
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monetary policy framework. Inclusion of judgement in forecasts can lead to self-fulfilling fluctuations, but without the …
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