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How does competition affect information acquisition of firms and thus the response of inflation and output to monetary policy shocks? This paper addresses these questions in a new dynamic general equilibrium model with both dynamic rational inattention and oligopolistic competition. In the...
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The present work offers a review on two divergent schools of thought regarding the subject of money and highlights why … understanding it is important to grasp the workings and nature of the concept of money. We adopt a spontaneous order perspective on … social institutions, considering money as one. Such framework allows for the construction of axioms from which we formulate …
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This paper employs a stylized New Keynesian DSGE model for a monetary union to analyze whether cyclical inflation differentials can be explained by cross-country differences concerning the characteristics of financial markets. Our results suggest that empirically plausible degrees of...
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This paper investigates how financial market imperfections and the frequency of price adjustment interact. Based on new firm-level evidence for Germany, we document that financially constrained firms adjust prices more often than their unconstrained counterparts, both upwards and downwards. We...
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This paper explores the impact of the exchange rate regime on inflation and output in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) EU candidate countries. The panel estimations for the period between 1994 and 2002 show that de facto measures of exchange rate stability have a better explanatory power...
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In most European countries, money wages are given in collective agreements or individual employment contracts, and the … stronger bargaining position when they try to prevent a cut in money wages. If inflation is so low that some money wages have … stable when money wage rigidity binds, providing an incentive for monetary policy makers to choose a low target for inflation …
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