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The International Monetary System : Living with Asymmetry

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2011

system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market … context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they remain central to discussions of international macroeconomic policy … coordination. To take two prominent examples of specific (and related) coordination problems, liquidity issues are paramount in …

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International Liquidity : The Fiscal Dimension

Obstfeld, Maurice - 2011

This paper argues that if policymakers seek to enhance global liquidity, then the international community must provide …

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New Directions for Stochastic Open Economy Models

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

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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EMU : Ready, or Not?

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

In this paper I focus on two specific hazard areas in the transition from Stage Two to Stage Three of European economic and monetary union (EMU), as well as on some key problems of Stage Three that EMU's monetary and fiscal structures appear ill-prepared to handle. The transitional hazards are...

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How Integrated are World Capital Markets? Some New Tests

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1986

This paper present some new empirical evidence on the extent of world capital-market integration. The first set of tests carried out uses data from different countries to compare internationally expected marginal rates of substitution between consumption on different dates. If residents of...

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Ruling Out Nonstationary Speculative Bubbles

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1985

There is a large and growing empirical literature that tests forthe existence of asset-price bubbles or "sunspot" equilibria -- equilibria unrelated to market fundamentals. Our view is that even tests for non-stationary asset-price bubbles should not be interpreted as such. In the present paper...

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Optimal Time-Consistent Fiscal Policy with Uncertain Lifetimes

Calvo, Guillermo A. - 1985

This paper studies optimal fiscal policy in an economy where heterogeneous agents with uncertain lifetimes coexist. We show that some plausible social welfare functions lead to time-inconsistent optimal plans, and we suggest restrictions on social preferences that avoid the problem. The...

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Capital Flows, the Current Account, and the Real Exchange Rate : Consequences of Liberalization and Stabilization

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1984

This paper develops a dynamic framework in which macroeconomic liberalization and stabilization measures of the type recently seen in Latin America can be studied. The model is sufficiently general to cover both polar cases of a closed capital account and free private capital mobility, so the...

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The Capital Inflows Problem Revisited : A Stylized Model of Southern Cone Disinflation

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1984

domestic interest rate that depends on expected changes in the prices of liquidity services and nontradable consumption goods …

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Exchange Rate Dynamics With Sluggish Prices Under Alternative Price-Adjustment Rules

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1983

This paper studies exchange rate behavior in models with moving long-run equilibria incorporating alternative price-adjustment mechanisms.The paper demonstrates that price-adjustment rules proposed by Mussa andby Barro and Grossman yield models that are empirically indistinguishable from each...

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