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This study shows that, in the United States, the effects of monetary policy on credit and housing markets have become … considerably stronger relative to the impact on GDP since the mid-1980s, while the effects on inflation have become weaker …. Macroeconomic stabilization through monetary policy may therefore have become associated with greater fluctuations in credit and …
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case of prevailing inflation, there is a mismatch between the nominal interest rate that is a discounting factor for all …
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type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank …
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This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets … analysis provides evidence of long-run causality running from credit to GDP in countries with Islamic banks only. This is …
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question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …
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affect inflation. Likewise, the interaction between central bank independence and coordination does not affect unemployment. …
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We present new empirical evidence for the US economy that inflation reduces the inequality of the earnings distribution … higher inflation on income distribution is shown to be rather small. However, we find that a longer duration between two …
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The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural reforms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate countries. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate countries, members of the...
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We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
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prototypical framework is that voters discount their memories about unemployment and inflation at a constant rate. Yet starting …
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