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Channel systems for conducting monetary policy are becoming increasingly popular. Despite their popularity, the consequences of implementing policy with a channel system are not well understood. We develop a general equilibrium framework of a channel system and investigate the optimal policy. A...
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Channel systems for conducting monetary policy are becoming increasingly popular. Despite its popularity, the consequences of implementing policy with a channel system are not well understood. The authors develop a general equilibrium framework of a channel system and study the optimal policy. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746483
When agents are liquidity constrained, two options exist — sell assets or borrow. We compare the allocations arising in two economies: in one, agents can sell government (outside) bonds and in the other they can borrow by issuing (inside) bonds. All transactions are voluntary, implying no...
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We develop a three-stage model of abatement technology search, adoption, and deployment. Using this model, which draws … on search theory tools more frequently used in labour and monetary economics, we compare market-based and command …-and-control pollution control instruments with respect to the incentives each provides for abatement technology search and adoption …
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equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … estimated parameter values welfare is improved if unemployed workers increase their search intensity. …
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We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called “beauty premium”. Our explanation is based entirely on search … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by …
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’ liquidity constraints. We also demonstrate that increasing the rate of inflation can be welfare improving when credit rationing …
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When agents are liquidity constrained, two options exist - sell assets or borrow. We compare the allocations arising in two economies: in one, agents can sell government (outside) bonds and in the other they can borrow by issuing (inside) bonds. All transactions are voluntary, implying no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135267
There is substantial consensus in the literature that positive uncertainty shocks predict a slowdown of economic activity. However, using U.S. data since 1950 we show that the macroeconomic response pattern to stock market volatility shocks has changed substantially over time. The negative...
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standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding is that the pass–through from changes in the money market rate to …
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