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Monetary Policy, Bounded Rationality, and Incomplete Markets

Farhi, Emmanuel - 2017

This paper extends the benchmark New-Keynesian model with a representative agent and rational expectations by introducing two key frictions: (1) agent heterogeneity with incomplete markets, uninsurable idiosyncratic risk, and occasionally-binding borrowing constraints; and (2) bounded...

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A Model of the International Monetary System

Farhi, Emmanuel - 2016

We propose a simple model of the international monetary system. We study the world supply and demand for reserve assets … denominated in different currencies under a variety of scenarios: a Hegemon vs. a multipolar world; abundant vs. scarce reserve … instability of the system, as well as the common prediction regarding the natural and beneficial emergence of a multipolar world …

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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

Heckman, James J. - 2014

This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...

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Macroeconomic Adjustment and the History of Crises in Open Economies

Aizenman, Joshua - 2012

In contrast, we find that past crisis experience has a significant impact on savings. When facing considerable political risk, the past does seem to matter - countries with more people who were exposed, over their lifetime, to larger disasters will tend to save more. This association, however,...

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Monetary Policy, Liquidity, and Growth

Aghion, Philippe - 2012

In this paper, we use cross-industry, cross-country panel data to test whether industry growth is positively affected by the interaction between the reactivity of real short term interest rates to the business cycle and industry-level measures of financial constraints. Financial constraints are...

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Crash Risk in Currency Markets

Farhi, Emmanuel - 2009

1996 to 2011 period using exchange rate spot, forward, and option data, we obtain a real-time index of world disaster risk …

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The Real Exchange Rate, Mercantilism and the Learning by Doing Externality

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper examines the degree to which the learning by doing externality [LBD] calls for an undervalued exchange rate, a policy suggested by recent empirical studies which concluded that mildly undervalued real exchange rate may enhance growth. We obtain mixed results. For an economy where LBD...

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Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate

Rose, Andrew K. - 2007

We use a quinquennial data set covering 87 countries between 1975 and 2005 to investigate the relationship between fertility and the real effective exchange rate. Theoretically a country experiencing a decline in its fertility rate can be expected to have higher savings, lower investment, a...

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Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2002

evidence that trade has the detrimental effect on the environment that the race-to-the-bottom theory would lead one to expect …

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Currency Unions and International Integration

Rose, Andrew K. - 2000

This paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them both to countries with sovereign monies, and to regions within...

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