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The 1960s and 1970s witnessed rapid growth in the markets for new money market instruments, such as negotiable certificates of deposit (CDs) and Eurodollar deposits, as banks and investors sought ways around various regulations affecting funding markets. In this paper, we investigate the impacts...
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pressure, and excessive credit growth by allocating income to agents featuring low marginal propensity to consume, and if …
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The Great Moderation in the U.S. economy was accompanied by a widespread increase in the volatility of financial variables. We explore the sources of the divergent patterns in volatilities by estimating a model with time-varying financial rigidities subject to structural breaks in the size of...
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We argue that Schularick and Taylor's (2012) comparison of credit growth and monetary growth as financial … merits of the "money view" and "credit view" as accounts of macroeconomic outcomes. Our own analysis of the postwar evidence … suggests that money outperforms credit in predicting economic downturns in the 14 countries in Schularick and Taylor's dataset …
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The diminished sensitivity of inflation to changes in resource utilization that has been observed in many advanced economies over the past several decades is frequently linked to the increase in global economic integration. In this paper, we examine this "globalization" hypothesis using both...
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This paper discusses various concepts of unemployment rate benchmarks that are frequently used by policymakers for assessing the current state of the economy as it relates to the pursuit of both price stability and maximum employment. In particular, we propose two broad categories of...
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