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Persistence and nominal inertia in a generalized Taylor economy: how longer contracts dominate shorter contracts

Dixon, Huw; Kara, Engin - 2005

In this paper we develop the Generalized Taylor Economy (GTE) in which there are many sectors with overlapping contracts of different lengths. In economies with the same average contract length, monetary shocks will be more persistent when longer contracts are present. We are able to solve the...

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The link between interest rates and exchange rates: do contractionary depreciations make a difference?

Sánchez, Marcelo - 2005

The link between exchange rates and interest rates features prominently in the theoretical and empirical literature on small open economies. This paper revisits this relationship using a simple model that incorporates the role of exchange rate pass-through into domestic prices and distinguishes...

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Near-rational exuberance

Bullard, James; Evans, George W.; Honkapohja, Seppo - 2005

We study how the use of judgement or “add-factors” in macroeconomic forecasting may disturb the set of equilibrium outcomes when agents learn using recursive methods. We isolate conditions under which new phenomena, which we call exuberance equilibria, can exist in standard macroeconomic...

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How does information affect the comovement between interest rates and exchange rates?

Sánchez, Marcelo - 2006

This paper compares the link between exchange rates and interest rates under full information and two alternative … asymmetric information approaches. It also distinguishes between cases of expansionary and contractionary depreciations. Full … information results are not robust to the presence of informational frictions. For economies exhibiting expansionary or strongly …

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Implications of monetary union for catching-up member states

Sánchez, Marcelo - 2006

We examine the implications of monetary union for macroeconomic stabilisation in catching up participating countries. We allow member states’supply conditions to differ inside the union, especially with regard to sectoral characteristics. Sectoral productivity shocks on balance hamper the...

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Understanding inflation persistence: a comparison of different models

Dixon, Huw; Kara, Engin - 2006

This paper adopts the Impulse-Response methodology to understand inflation persistence. It has often been argued that existing models of pricing fail to explain the persistence that we observe. We adopt a common general framework which allows for an explicit modelling of the distribution of...

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The distribution of contract durations across firms: a unified framework for understanding and comparing dynamic wage and price setting models

Dixon, Huw - 2006

This paper shows how any steady state distribution of ages and related hazard rates can be represented as a distribution across firms of completed contract lengths. The distribution is consistent with a Generalised Taylor Economy or a Generalised Calvo model with duration dependent reset...

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Monetary stabilisation in a currency union of small open economies

Sánchez, Marcelo - 2008

This paper studies stabilisation policies in a multi-country currency union of small open economies. It abstracts from key factors favouring currency union formation, such as reduced transaction costs and enhanced credibility, which are exogenous to the factors studied here. Demand-side shocks...

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