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While macroeconometricians continue to dispute the size, timing, and even the existence of effects of monetary policy, political economists often find large effects of political variables and often attribute the effects to manipulation of the Fed. Since the political econometricians often use...
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This paper presents a new way to assess robustness of claims from identified VAR work. All possible identifications are checked for the one that is worst for the claim, subject to the restriction that the VAR produce reasonable impulse responses to shocks. The statistic on which the claim is...
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aggregates at all. We begin by considering the body of thought known as the "quantity theory of money." The quantity theory … the nominal money stock. The nominal homogeneity conditions that deliver the quantity-theory result are the same as those … paribus unitary relationship between inflation and money growth. Simulations of a New Keynesian model suggest that we should …
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This paper compares discretionary monetary policy under two Phillips curves. Previous work uses a Phillips curve consistent with "Neoclassical" models of price adjustment. Sticky price models imply a "New-Keynesian" Phillips curve based on staggered price setting that delivers familiar results...
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-wage and sticky-price theories and strong evidence against credit-rationing theories. First, we find that models that allow for …
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The value of a vast array of financial assets are functions of rates or prices determined in OTC, interbank, or other off-exchange markets. In order to price such derivative assets, underlying rate and price indexes are routinely sampled and estimated. To guard against misreporting, whether...
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