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an expansionary shock to monetary policy. Of these features, the most important are staggered wage contracts of average …
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Macroeconomic and microeconomic data paint conflicting pictures of price behavior. Macroeconomic data suggest that inflation is inertial. Microeconomic data indicate that firms change prices frequently. We formulate and estimate a model which resolves this apparent micro - macro conflict. Our...
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This paper reviews recent research that grapples with the question: What happens after an exogenous shock to monetary … exogenous shock to monetary policy. Nevertheless, there is considerable agreement about the qualitative effects of a monetary … policy shock in the sense that inference is robust across a large subset of the identification schemes that have been …
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We argue that discretionary monetary policy exposes the economy to welfare-decreasing instability. It does so by creating the potential for private expectations about the response of monetary policy to exogenous shocks to be self-fulfilling. Among the many equilibria that are possible, some have...
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This paper uses the Flow of Funds accounts to assess the impact of a monetary policy shock on the borrowing and lending … sectors can be summarized as follows. First, following a contractionary shock to monetary policy, net funds raised by the … business sector increases for roughly a year. Thereafter, as the recession induced by the policy shock gains momentum, net …
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rates. The temporal pattern of the depreciation in U.S. nominal exchange rates following a positive monetary policy shock is …
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Conventional wisdom holds that unanticipated expansionary monetary policy shocks cause transient but persistent decreases in real and nominal interest rates. However a number of econometric studies argue that the evidence favors the opposite view, namely that these shocks actually raise, rather...
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the following facts. In response to a contractionary monetary policy shock, the aggregate price level responds very little … failing of the sticky price model is that it implies profits rise after a contractionary monetary policy shock. This finding …, such as wage contracts, which dampen movements in the marginal cost of production after a monetary policy shock …
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employment to a money supply shock. However, a key shortcoming of these models is that they cannot rationalize persistent …
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response to such a shock, employment, output, and nonresidential investment rise, while real wages, residential investment, and …
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