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Intertemporal Substitution in Macroeconomics
Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2011
Modern neoclassical theories of the business cycle posit that aggregate fluctuations in consumption and employment are the consequence of dynamic optimizing behavior by economic agents who face no quantity constraint. In this paper, we estimate an explicit model :f this type. In particular, we...
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The Optimal Taxation of Height : A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2011
Should the income tax include a credit for short taxpayers and a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a substantial height tax: a tall...
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Self-Fulfilling Expectations and Fluctuations in Aggregate Demand
Woodford, Michael - 2010
The paper presents an intertemporal general equilibrium model with rationing in the product market, in which stationary sunspot equilibria are shown to exist, indicating the possibility of fluctuations in economic activity simply due to self-fulfilling variations in economic agents'...
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The Central-Bank Balance Sheet as an Instrument of Monetary Policy
Cúrdia, Vasco - 2010
While many analyses of monetary policy consider only a target for a short-term nominal interest rate, other dimensions of policy have recently been of greater importance: changes in the supply of bank reserves, changes in the assets acquired by central banks, and changes in the interest rate...
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An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2011
This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short run and flexible in the long run. Policy is evaluated by how well it raises the...
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Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in a Liquidity Trap
Eggertsson, Gauti B. - 2012
In previous work (Eggertsson and Woodford, 2003), we characterized the optimal conduct of monetary policy when a real disturbance causes the natural rate of interest to be temporarily negative, so that the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates binds, and showed that commitment to a...
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Inflation Targeting and Financial Stability
Woodford, Michael - 2012
A number of commentators have argued that the desirability of inflation targeting as a framework for monetary policy analysis should be reconsidered in light of the global financial crisis, on the ground that it requires neglect of the implications of monetary policy for financial stability....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108003
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Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy with Endogenous Collateral Constraints
Araújo, Aloísio P. - 2013
We consider the effects of central-bank purchases of a risky asset, financed by issuing riskless nominal liabilities (reserves), as an additional dimension of policy alongside "conventional" monetary policy (central-bank control of the riskless nominal interest rate), in a general-equilibrium...
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Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice
Mankiw, N. Gregory - 2010
We highlight and explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax … policy. As recommended by theory, top marginal income tax rates have declined, marginal income tax schedules have flattened … theory. Moreover, some of theory's more subtle prescriptions, such as taxes that involve personal characteristics, asset …
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An Asset Allocation Puzzle
Canner, Niko - 2008
This paper examines popular advice on portfolio allocation among cash, bonds, and stocks. It documents that this advice is inconsistent with the mutual-fund separation theorem, which states that all investors should hold the same composition of risky assets. In contrast to the theorem, popular...
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