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between notional and effective demands, and using it to explain price and quantity adjustments in conditions of unemployment …
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completely general supply disturbances, using simple monetary rules based only on: (i) the current shock, (ii) the previous … forecast of the current shock, (iii) the forecast for just one period ahead. The optimal rule can be expressed in an infinite …
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Conventional wisdom holds that unanticipated expansionary monetary policy shocks cause transient but persistent decreases in real and nominal interest rates. However a number of econometric studies argue that the evidence favors the opposite view, namely that these shocks actually raise, rather...
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More than fifty years ago, Friedman and Schwartz examined historical data for the United States and found evidence of pro-cyclical movements in the money stock, which led corresponding movements in output. We find similar correlations in more recent data; these appear most clearly when Divisia...
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informational efficiency of the price system. We show that, when agents have private information about monetary shocks, the cost can …
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Previous models of the demand for money are either inconsistent with contemporaneous adjustment of the price level to … changes in the nominal money supply. This paper proposes a shock-absorber model of money demand in which money supply shocks …. The shock-absorber variables significantly improve the estimated short-run money demand functions in every case …
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the price decline having a much larger unanticipated component during the Depression, as well as less flexible wage …
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We document the presence of both small and large price changes in individual price records from the CPI in France and … the US. After correcting for measurement error and cross-section heterogeneity, the size-distribution of price changes has … the ratio of kurtosis to the frequency of price changes is a sufficient statistics for the real effects of monetary policy …
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predictions. Motivated by post-COVID inflation in the U.S., a model experiment shows that a one-time relative price shock …We provide theory and evidence that relative price shocks can cause aggregate inflation and act as aggregate supply … shocks. Empirically, we show that exogenous positive energy price shocks have a positive impact not only on headline but also …
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financial institution recovers from the shock at a random time, the trader representing the institution observes this recovery … exposure. Cognition limits lengthen the market price recovery. They also imply that traders who find that their institution has … not yet recovered from the shock place market sell orders, and then progressively buy back at relatively low prices, while …
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