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James Tobin : an appreciation of his contribution to economics

Buiter, Willem H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Jim Tobin, who died on March 11, 2002 at the age of 84, was one of giants of economics of the second half of the twentieth century and the greatest macroeconomist of his generation. Tobin’s influence on macroeconomic theory is so pervasive - so much part of our professional ‘acquis’ - that...

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The marginal utility of income

Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...

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Overcoming the zero bound on nominal interest rates with negative interest on currency : Gesell's solution

Buiter, Willem H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

An economy is in a liquidity trap when monetary policy cannot influence either real or nominal variables of interest. A necessary condition for this is that the short nominal interest rate is constrained by its lower bound, typically zero. The paper considers two small analytical models, one...

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Debt and incomplete financial markets: a case for nominal GDP targeting

Sheedy, Kevin D. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

been used to justify a policy of strict inflation targeting. …

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Real effects of regional house prices: dynamic panel estimation with heterogeneity

Muñoz, Sònia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper uses recently developed methods for estimating dynamic heterogeneous cointegrated panel data models - which allows for heterogeneity in parameters and dynamics across agents - to study housing wealth effects in a dynamic model of the 50 US states and the District of Columbia from the...

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Investment choice and inflation uncertainty

Fischer, Gregory - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

aggregates. The data show that periods of increased inflation uncertainty are associated with substantial reductions in total …

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Inflation, inequality and social conflict

Crowe, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents a political economy model of inflation as a result of social conflict. Agents are heterogeneous in … terms of income. Agents’ income levels determine their ability to hedge against the effects of inflation. The interaction of … model makes a number of predictions concerning which environments are conducive to the emergence of inflation. Inflation …

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Nominal wage rigidity and the rate of inflation

Nickell, Stephen; Quintini, Glenda - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

inflation is low. Despite the substantial numbers of individuals whose nominal wages fall from one year to the next, we find … that if long-run inflation is one percent higher, the number of individuals with negative real pay growth increases by …

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Do financial crises erode potential output? evidence from OECD inflation responses

Bijapur, Mohan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper presents evidence from a panel investigation of OECD countries that inflationary pressures tend to be stronger during recovery from financial crises compared to recovery from non-crisis economic downturns, indicating impairment in productive potential.

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Are credit crunches supply or demand shocks?

Bijapur, Mohan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

inflation to rise in the short term. Our results also suggest that the effects on aggregate supply have grown stronger in recent …

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