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working schedules. This simple model can generate unemployment, even if wages adjust instantaneously, firms are perfectly … alternative explanation for why unskilled workers are a primary source of structural unemployment"--Federal Reserve Bank of St …
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This paper examines the inflation "pass-through" problem in American monetary policy, defined as the relationship …
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We simultaneously identify two government spending shocks: military spending shocks as defined by Ramey (2008) and federal spending shocks as defined by Perotti (2008). We analyze the effect of these shocks on state-level personal income and employment. We find regional patterns in the manner in...
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” variables, and long-horizon inflation forecasts for explaining the U.S. inflation rate in the post-war period. For alternative … specifications for the inflation driving process and measures of inflation and the gap we reach a similar conclusion: the … contribution of changes in long-horizon inflation forecasts dominates that for the gap and supply shock variables. Put another way …
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This article discusses the microstructure of the U.S. Treasury securities market. Treasury securities are nominally riskless debt instruments issued by the U.S. government. Microstructural analysis is a field of economics/finance that examines the roles played by heterogenous agents,...
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In February 2005, former Chairman Alan Greenspan referred to the decline in long-term rates in the wake of the Fed increasing the target for the federal funds rate by 150 basis points as a “conundrum.” Greenspan’s remarks generated considerable interest and research. I show that the...
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