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creation in Japan's post-bubble period. With the price level being assumed to be dependent on both goods with free market …, central bank-backed debt-financed price controls and net capital outflows. …
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The conventional view, as expounded by sticky-price models, is that price adjustment determines the PPP reversion rate …. This study examines the mechanism by which PPP deviations are corrected. Nominal exchange rate adjustment, not price …
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shocks have large and persistent price effects, while output effects tend to be moderate. The 2022 natural gas price spike … winter. Counterfactual simulations of an embargo on natural gas imports from Russia indicate similar positive price and …
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gas. A shock decomposition exercise shows that the price of natural gas responds primarily to changes in the curvature of …This paper aims to assess the role of expectations as a determinant of the real price of natural gas. To measure … expectations, especially when measured as functional shocks, lead to strong and persistent increases in the real price of natural …
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In this paper we focus on specification of revenue functions in their dual price space. We consider two distance …, both in price space. The former is multiplicative, satisfying homogeneity, the latter is additive satisfying transitivity …
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We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975 - 2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...
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This paper focusses on the relation between external imbalances and domestic money and credit growth in the euro area. We compute money and credit overhang both for the euro area as a whole and for individual member countries. Our results show that both aggregate money and credit overhang have...
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We investigate regime-dependent Granger causality between real output, inflation and monetary indicators and map with U.S. Fed Chairperson's tenure since 1965. While all monetary indicators have causal predictive content in certain time periods, we report that the Federal Funds rate (FFR) and...
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Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...
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We investigate the welfare effects of third-degree price discrimination by a two-sided platform that enables … interaction between buyers and sellers. Sellers are heterogenous with respect to their per-interaction benefit, and, under price … discrimination, the platform can condition its fee on sellers' type. In a model with linear demand on each side, we show that price …
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