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We construct a small-open-economy, New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium model with real-financial linkages to analyze the effects of financial shocks and macroprudential policies on the Canadian economy. Our model has four key features. First, it allows for non-trivial...
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Prevailing explanations of the decline in real interest rates since the early 1980s are premised on the notion that real interest rates are driven by variations in desired saving and investment. But based on data stretching back to 1870 for 19 countries, our systematic analysis casts doubt on...
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inflation and interest rate expectations at various future horizons, as well as term structure data from both nominal and index …We use a joint model of macroeconomic and term structure dynamics to estimate inflation risk premia in the United …-linked bonds. Our results show that, in both currency areas, inflation risk premia are relatively small, positive, and increasing …
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, and an inflation process that has become quite insensitive to domestic slack, on the other. This two-pronged attack has …-tuning inflation and responds more systematically to the financial cycle …
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of the effects of monetary policy, we show that monetary easing stimulates output and inflation, also during the period …
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(inflation-adjusted) interest rates over long horizons and finds them incomplete. The role of monetary policy, and its …
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Collateral constraints widely used in models of financial crises feature a pecuniary externality: Agents do not internalize how borrowing decisions taken in "good times" affect collateral prices during a crisis. We show that agents in a competitive equilibrium borrow more than a financial...
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This paper investigates the effect of cyclical macroeconomic policy and financial sector characteristics on growth. Using cross-country, cross-industry OECD data, it yields two main findings. First, countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies foster growth disproportionately in more...
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policy by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using information from out-of-money equity index options, we find that perceived risks …
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The unconventional shocks and non-linear dynamics behind the high volatility of financial markets present a challenge for the implementation of macroprudential policy. This paper introduces two of these unconventional shocks, news shocks about future fundamentals and regime changes in global...
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