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inflation expectations. We develop this measure using assumptions common in economic analysis of open economies. Using quarterly …
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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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optimal policy is a output and inflation. In an open economy, the optimal rule changes in two ways. First, the policy … instrument is a Conditions Index the exchange rate. Second, on the right side of the rule, inflation is replaced by filters out … the transitory effects of exchange-rate movements. The model also implies that pure inflation targeting is dangerous in an …
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sector bias of sbtc during the 1970s and 1980s. The hypothesis is also strongly supported by more structural estimation on U …
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Ignoring tax avoidance possibilities, a value-added tax and a cash-flow income tax have identical behavioral and distributional consequences. Yet the available means of tax avoidance under each are very different. Under a VAT, avoidance occurs through cross-border shopping, whereas under an...
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This paper links business cycle volatility to barriers on international mobility of goods and capital. Theory predicts …
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Financially closed economies insure themselves against current-account shocks using international reserves. We characterize the optimal management of reserves using an open-economy model of precautionary savings and emphasize several results. First, the welfare-based opportunity cost of reserves...
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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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This paper explores the effect of news shocks on the current account and other macroeconomic variables using worldwide giant oil discoveries as a directly observable measure of news shocks about future output-the delay between a discovery and production is on average 4 to 6 years. We first...
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This paper estimates the efficiency consequences of interactions between nominal tax systems and inflation in open … economies. Domestic inflation changes after-tax real interest rates at home and abroad, thereby stimulating international … capital movement and influencing domestic and foreign tax receipts, saving, and investment. The efficiency costs of inflation …
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