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- than fixed-rate contracts. The source of impulse also matters: persistent inflation shocks have larger effects than … cyclical fluctuations in inflation and nominal interest rates. …
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expected inflation. The inability of the Fed to maintain a credible commitment to low interest rates in the face of increased … government spending and rising inflation led to the Fed-Treasury Accord of March 1951. Following the Accord, the external …
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A model is constructed in which consumers and banks have incentives to fake the quality of collateral. Conventional monetary easing can exacerbate these problems, in that the mispresentation of collateral becomes more profitable, thus increasing haircuts and interest rate differentials. Central...
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"When monetary policies are endogenous, the conventional VAR approach for detecting the effect of monetary policies is powerless. This paper proposes to test the implication of monetary policies along a different dimension. That implication is to exploit the policy induced exogeneity of...
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"A defining feature of business cycles is the comovement of inputs at the sectoral level with aggregate activity. Standard models cannot account for this phenomenon. This paper develops and estimates a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model which can account for this key regularity. My...
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estimated model considers a monetary policy regime where the central bank targets overall inflation but is also concerned about … monetary authority should respond directly to non-tradable inflation instead of overall inflation. In particular, if … preferences are relatively biased towards inflation stabilization, responding directly to overall inflation results in better …
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