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potentially nonlinear effects of inflation on economic growth. We find that inflation is associated with significantly lower … effects of inflation on economic growth. We also document significant variation in the effect of inflation on growth across …
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groups in the dispersion of household-specific rates of inflation. Using survey data on inflation expectations, I show that … demographic groups with greater dispersion in experienced inflation also disagree more about future inflation. I argue that these … results can be rationalized from the perspective of an imperfect information model in which idiosyncratic inflation experience …
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We study the pricing response of U.S. supermarkets to large demand shocks triggered by labor conflicts, mass population relocation, and shopping sprees around major snowstorms and hurricanes. Our focus on demand shocks is novel in the empirical literature that uses large datasets of individual...
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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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model does a good job of accounting for the joint behavior of labor and goods markets, as well as inflation, during the … capital played critical roles in accounting for the small size of the drop in inflation that occurred during the Great …
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We study a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which agents are concerned about model uncertainty regarding … from climate change to damages is subject to uncertainty, and we use robust control theory techniques to study efficiency … dynamic optimal taxation. A small increase in the concern about model uncertainty can cause a significant drop in optimal …
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managers are risk averse, they might underinvest when firm-specific uncertainty increases, leading to suboptimal investment …
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A consumption-based asset pricing model with risk and uncertainty implies that the time-varying exposures of equity … portfolios to the market and uncertainty factors carry positive risk premiums. The empirical results from the size, book … (individual stocks) with market and uncertainty predict the time series and cross-sectional variation in stock returns. We find …
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