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Discretionary monetary policy in the Calvo model

Zandweghe, Willem Van; Wolman, Alexander - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2011

-period Taylor model, discretionary policy in the Calvo model does not accommodate predetermined prices in a way that inevitably …

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The optimal rate of inflation with trending relative prices

Wolman, Alexander L. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2009

The relative prices of different categories of consumption goods have been trending over time. Assuming they are … exogenous with respect to monetary policy, these trends imply that monetary policy cannot stabilize the prices of all … consumption categories. If prices are sticky, monetary policy then must trade off relative price distortions within different …

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Optimal monetary policy

Khan, Aubhik; King, Robert G.; Wolman, Alexander L. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2000

Optimal monetary policy maximizes welfare, given frictions in the economic environment. Constructing a model with two sets of frictions - the Keynesian friction of costly price adjustment by imperfectly competitive firms and the Monetarist friction of costly exchange of wealth for goods - we...

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The case for price stability

Goodfriend, Marvin; King, Robert G. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2001

Reasoning within the New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS) we previously recommended that price stability should be the primary objective of monetary policy. We called this a neutral policy because it keeps output at its potential, defined as the outcome of an imperfectly competitive real business...

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The competitiveness of rural county manufacturing during a period of dollar appreciation

Bechter, Dan M.; Chmura, Christine - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 1990

Some observers contend that manufacturing activity in rural areas has been more adversely affected than in urban areas by foreign competition. It is true, of course, that the economies of some rural areas have been devastated by closing of key manufacturing plants. Even if plant closings were...

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Whither North Carolina furniture manufacturing?

Lacy, Robert L. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2004

North Carolina's furniture manufacturing industry has contracted in recent years as imports have gained a greater share of the domestic furniture market. Rapid growth of the furniture industry in China and a surge in exports from that country to the United States in particular have contributed...

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Fifth district indexes of manufacturing output

Bechter, Dan M.; Chmura, Christine; Ko, Richard K. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 1988

The absence of timely data on regional manufacturing output makes it difficult to determine what is happening in the manufacturing sector in a particular area. Data comparable to the monthly indexes of U.S. manufacturing output are not generally available for individual states or for specific...

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Deep habits in the New Keynesian Phillips curve

Lubik, Thomas A.; Teo, Wing Leong - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2011

We derive and estimate a New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) in a model where consumers are assumed to have deep habits. Habits are deep in the sense that they apply to individual consumption goods instead of aggregate consumption. This alters the NKPC in a fundamental manner as it introduces...

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Large excess reserves in the U.S.: a view from the cross-section of banks

Ennis, Huberto M.; Wolman, Alexander L. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2012

Bank reserves in the United States increased dramatically at the end of 2008. Subsequent asset purchase programs in 2009 and 2011 more than doubled the quantity of reserves outstanding. These events required major adjustments in banks' balance sheets. We study the evolution of reserve holdings...

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Selection and monetary non-neutrality in time-dependent pricing models

Carvalho, Carlos; Schwartzman, Felipe - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond - 2012

disproportionately likely to be ones with prices set before the shock. This selection effect is important in a large class of sticky …

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