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The new conventional wisdom on globalization emphasizes that reaping the benefits of trade and financial integration is not automatic, and requires better domestic institutions, essentially improved safety nets in rich countries and improved governance in the poor countries. The prevailing...
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asset (money). We show that, even in the absence of asymmetric information or an agency problem, the private provision of … this. This distortion is present even if we introduce lending and government money. To eliminate the inefficiency the …
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driven by the crisis. Our general point is that money matters in financial markets. Different financial assets have different …
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The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … criticism for this decision. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard … decades. In this paper, we develop a justification for including money in the interest rate rule by allowing for imperfect …
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Why do we see nominal contracts in the presence of price level risk? To answer this question, this paper studies an overlapping generations model in which the equilibrium contract form is optimal, given the contracts elsewhere in the economy. Nominal contracts turn out to be optimal in the...
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modified to account for observed money growth and inflation trends, and that monetary trends may serve as a useful cross … persistent errors in monetary policy and sustained trends in money growth and inflation. If interest rate prescriptions derived … from Keynesian-style models are augmented with a cross-check against money-based estimates of trend inflation, inflation …
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justified empirically. Both the relation between money and inflation, and between money and aggregate demand, are considered … by money growth. This relationship arises from a conventional aggregate-demand channel; an emphasis on the link between … monetary aggregates and inflation in no way requires a direct channel connecting money and inflation. The relevance of money …
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money and inflation. When analysing the full sample of countries we find a strong positive relation between the long …-run inflation and money growth rate. The relation is not, however, proportional. The strong link between inflation and money growth … inflation and money growth for low inflation countries (on average less than 10% per annum over the last 30 years) is weak. We …
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criticized for failing to explain common trends in money growth and inflation, and that therefore money should be used as a cross …
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We study the contribution of money to business cycle fluctuations in the US, the UK, Japan, and the Euro area using a … contribution changes over time. Models giving money no role provide a distorted representation of the sources of cyclical …
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