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The Role of Consumption Substitutability in the International Transmission of Shocks

Tille, Cédric - 2006

This paper develops a general framework to analyze the welfare consequences of monetary and fiscal shocks in an open economy, focusing on the role of the degree of substitutability between goods produced in different countries. We find that an expansionary shock that would be beneficial in a...

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Why are Switzerland's Foreign Assets so Low? The Growing Financial Exposure of a Small Open Economy

Stoffels, Nicolas - 2007

Switzerland's international investment position shows a puzzling feature since 1999: Large and persistent current account surpluses have failed to boost the value of Swiss foreign assets. In this paper, we link this pattern to the substantial increase in the leveraging of Switzerland's...

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International Capital Flows

Tille, Cédric - 2007

The sharp increase in both gross and net capital flows over the past two decades has led to a renewed interest in their determinants. Most existing theories of international capital flows are in the context of models with only one asset, which only have implications for net capital flows, not...

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Borrowing Without Debt? Understanding the U.S. International Investment Position

Higgins, Matthew - 2006

account adjustment could occur through a sudden and disruptive depreciation of the dollar and a sharp drop in U.S. consumption …

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Competitive Devaluations : A Welfare-Based Approach

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pesenti, Paolo A.; Roubini, Nouriel; … - 2006

any level of consumption …

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Subjective Intertemporal Substitution

Crump, Richard K. - 2020

We estimate the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS)—the response of expected consumption growth to changes …). This unique data set allows us to estimate the consumption Euler equation with no auxiliary assumptions on the properties … with the results of much of the literature. In addition, planned consumption displays excess sensitivity to expected income …

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Three lessons for monetary policy in a low-inflation era

Reifschneider, David Leon; Williams, John C. - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 32 (2000) 4,2, pp. 936-966

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Inflation band targeting and optimal inflation contracts

Mishkin, Frederic S.; Westelius, Niklas J. - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 40 (2008) 4, pp. 557-582

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Globalization, macroeconomic performance, and monetary policy

Mishkin, Frederic S. - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 41 (2009), pp. 187-196

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Monetary Policy Frameworks and the Effective Lower Bound on Interest Rates

Mertens, Thomas M. - 2019

This paper applies a standard New Keynesian model to analyze the effects of monetary policy in the presence of a low natural rate of interest and a lower bound on interest rates. Under a standard inflation-targeting approach, inflation expectations will be anchored at a level below the inflation...

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