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In the late 1970s countries in Latin America's Southern Cone attempted to lower domestic inflation rates through the … appreciation may result.While unanticipated, permanent inflation changes are neutral in the paper,anticipated inflation is neutral …
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This paper examines the short-run relation between anticipated inflation and the real rate of interest in a model where … floating -- apply equally to a closed economy. The paper shows that an increase in the expected inflation rate depresses the … is determinate in the floating-rate case, the real interest rate is invariant with respect to inflation …
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This paper shows that the optimal extraction of seigniorage implies a strong tendency for inflation to fall over time … inflation rate each period in a discretionary manner. One way to view the model is as a synthesis of the "tax-smoothing" theory … of government deficits, which predicts that the inflation tax follows approximately a martingale, and of models of …
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-rate depreciation and nominal wage inflation, embodying it in an expectations-augmented Phillips curve. The economy studied produces … the "vicious circle" hypothesis, showing how an explosive cycle of exchange-rate depreciation and wage-price inflation may …
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This article demonstrates the value of microdata for understanding the effect of wages on life cycle fertility dynamics. Conventional estimates of neoclassical economic fertility models obtained from linear aggregate time series regressions are widely criticized for being nonrobust when adjusted...
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The paper develops a simple stochastic new open economy macroeconomic model based on sticky nominal wages. Explicit solution of the wage-setting problem under uncertainty allows one to analyze the effects of the monetary regime on welfare, expected output, and the expected terms of trade....
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This paper surveys new methods for estimatifg labor supply functions. A unified framework of analysis is presented. All recent models of labor supply are special cases of a general index function model developed for the analysis o dummy endogenous variables
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This paper is a highly selective review of our knowledge about the scope for sterilized intervention in foreign exchange markets under alternative exchange-rate regimes. Section I demonstrates the potential importance of simultaneous-equations bias in single-equation econometric studies of the...
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This note tests the hypothesis that nominal interest differentials between similar assets denominated in different currencies can be explained entirely by the expected change in the exchange rate over the holding period. This proposition, often called the "Fisher open" hypothesis or the...
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The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...
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