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We analytically characterize optimal monetary policy for an augmented New Keynesian model with a housing sector. In a setting where the private sector has rational expectations about future housing prices and inflation, optimal monetary policy can be characterized without making reference to...
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Should the central bank prevent 'excessive' asset price dynamics or should it wait until the boom spontaneously turns into a crash and intervene only afterwards? The debate over this issue goes back at least to the exchange between Bernanke-Gertler (BG) and Cecchetti but has not settled yet. In...
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emerging market economies. Expansionary monetary policies in response to the burst of bubbles are argued to have contributed to … vagabonding bubbles around the globe …
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We examine “Forward Guidance Contracts”, which make central bankers' utility contingent on the precision of interest-rate forecasts for some time. Such Forward Guidance Contracts are a flexible commitment device and can improve economic performance when the economy is stuck in a liquidity...
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This paper reconsiders the role of monetary policy in Sweden's strong recovery from the Great Depression. The Riksbank …, our findings suggest that Sweden avoided the worst excesses of the depression by conducting conservative rather than … innovative monetary policy. We find that, by keeping the Swedish krona undervalued to replenish foreign reserves, Sweden …
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Home equity is the primary self-funding mechanism for long term services and supports (LTSS). Using data from the relevant waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1996-2010), we exploit the exogenous variation in the form of wealth shocks resulting from the value of housing assets, to examine...
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conditions, there can be rational bubbles. Hence, we provide a microfoundation for bubbles that relies on a frictionless infinite …
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Bubbles are omnipresent in lab experiments with asset markets. Most of these experiments were conducted in environments … smaller bubbles if human traders expect algorithmic traders to be present …
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This paper proposes a new double-question survey method that elicits information about how individuals subjective belief valuations are compared and related to their price expectations. An individual respondent is presented with two sets of questions, one that asks about his/her belief regarding...
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, speculative bubbles and post-bubble secular stagnation. To prevent a similar scenario for China capital controls, a tighter …
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