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The impact of inflation targeting on inflation and growth: how robust is the evidence?
Junankar, Pramod N.; Wong, Chun Yee - 2020
authors have used different estimation methods on different samples of data. Some of the differences in results may also be … due to the different time periods (or different frequencies of data) used in the estimation. In this paper, we provide … estimation methods on panel data on a large sample of countries. We note that the results depend critically on the sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227388
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Volatility and growth : governments are key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228789
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Should easier access to international credit replace foreign aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488418
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The inequality-growth plateau
Henderson, Daniel J.; Qian, Junhui; Wang, Le - 2015
We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require an a priori assumption on the underlying functional form. This approach reveals a plateau completely missed by commonly used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469680
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003291728
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Infinite dimensional VARs and factor models
Chudik, Alexander (contributor);  … - 2007
that this will lead to a dynamic factor model with the dominant unit acting as the factor. The problems of estimation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646695
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What measure of inflation should a developing country central bank target?
Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in the context of developing economies, where a large proportion of households are credit constrained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307888
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Distributional effects of monetary policy in emerging market economies
Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
We develop a two-sector, heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete financial markets to study the distributional effects and aggregate welfare implications of alternative monetary policy rules in emerging market economies. Relative to inflation targeting, exchange rate management benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309046
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Hyperbolic discounting and positive optimal inflation
Graham, Liam; Snower, Dennis J. - 2011
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306325
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Optimal price indices for targeting inflation under incomplete markets
Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010
In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a twosector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810538