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An Optimization-Based Econometric Framework for the Evaluation of Monetary Policy : Expanded Version

Rotemberg, Julio J. - 1998

This paper considers a simple quantitative model of output, interest rate and inflation determination in the United … disturbances, can account for our data nearly as well as an unrestricted VAR. The monetary policy rule that most reduces inflation … high average inflation rate. But even in the case of a constrained-optimal policy, that takes into account some of the …

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Granger-Causality and Stabilization Policy

Buiter, Willem H. - 1981

This paper aims to provide a stochastic, rational expectations extension of Tobin's "Money and Income; Post Hoc Ergo Proper Hoc?". It is well-known that money may Granger-cause real variables even though the joint density function of the real variables is invariant under changes in the...

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The Optimality of Nominal Contracts

Freeman, Scott - 1991

Why do we see nominal contracts in the presence of price level risk? To answer this question, this paper studies an overlapping generations model in which the equilibrium contract form is optimal, given the contracts elsewhere in the economy. Nominal contracts turn out to be optimal in the...

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Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policies in the World Economy

Grilli, Vittorio - 1991

In this paper we investigate the role of credit institutions in transmitting monetary shocks to the domestic economy and to the rest of the world output. In modeling the monetary and financial sector of the economy we distinguish between monetary injections via lump-sum transfers to individuals...

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On Inflation and Output with Costly Price Changes : A Simple Unifying Result

Benabou, Roland - 1993

We analyze the effect of inflation on the average output of monopolistic firms facing a small fixed cost of changing …

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Long-memory Inflation Uncertainty : Evidence from the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Backus, David K. - 1993

We use a fractional difference model to reconcile two features of yields on US government bonds with modem asset pricing theory: the persistence of the short rate and variability of the long end of the yield curve. We suggest that this process might arise from the response of the heterogeneous...

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