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Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into the potential mechanisms driving economic...
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This paper uses a DSGE model to examine the effects of an expansion in government spending in a liquidity trap. The … spending multiplier can be much larger than in the normal situation if the liquidity trap is very prolonged, and the budgetary … expansion. Our paper addresses this question in a model environment where the duration of the liquidity trap is determined …
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This paper contains a selective review of some of the key fiscal issues faced by transition economies. The twelve countries that provide the empirical background for this study have all been under Fund programmes for at least some of the time since they initiated their transitions from plan to...
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The delegation of monetary policy to a supranational Central Bank creates a conflict of interest between residents of different countries. For example, the country in recession favours more inflation to boost output, while the country in boom prefers exactly the opposite. This conflict gives...
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