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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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predicts a short-term inflation-output trade-off, a liquidity effect, countercyclical markups, and procyclical wages after …
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same inflation or interest rate expectations can differently assess whether the level of the corresponding variable is … and affects durable spending and saving decisions. We also show that the variation in inflation preferences can be …
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This paper explores communication strategies for anchoring households’ medium-term inflation expectations in a high … inflation environment. We conducted a survey experiment with a representative sample of 4,000 German households at the height of … the recent inflation surge in early 2023, with information treatments including a qualitative statement by the ECB …
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In a VAR model of the US, the response of the relative price of durables to a monetary contraction is either flat or mildly positive. It significantly falls only if narrowly defined as the ratio between new house and nondurables prices. These findings survive three identification strategies and...
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2007. The shock increased households' inflation expectations during 2006 and actual inflation in 2007. Germans' willingness …Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation … to purchase durables increased by 34% after the shock, compared to before and to matched households in other European …
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Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation … households increased their inflation expectations and willingness to purchase durables before the increase in VAT. Future …
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This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and long contracts as well as long contracts concluded in different periods are strategic...
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Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...
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