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Conventional wisdom has it that inventory investment destabilizes the economy be-cause it is procyclical to sales. Khan and Thomas (2007) show that the conventional wisdom is wrong in a general equilibrium (S,s) model with capital. We argue that their finding is not robust - the conventional...
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"Price rigidity is the key mechanism for propagating business cycles in traditional Keynesian theory. Yet the New …
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"This paper provides a simple dynamic optimization model of durable goods inventories. Closed-form solutions are derived in a general equilibrium environment with imperfect information and serially correlated shocks. The model is then applied to scrutinize some popular conjectures regarding the...
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develop an estimation and simulation procedure to generate historical time series of interest rates. We find that the … predictions of interest rates based on a general equilibrium theory are partially consistent with US data"--Federal Reserve Bank …
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