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dispersion reduces welfare by creating mismatch between posted prices and money balances. Inflation exacerbates this welfare loss … simultaneous search or any heterogeneity in preferences, production costs, or search technologies. A distribution of money holdings … price distribution, in turn, makes buyers indifferent across a range of money balances, rationalizing the non …
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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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inflation volatility and mean unemployment rate is feasible when an asymmetric policy rule is adopted …
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We analyze the economic consequences of forming a monetary union among countries with varying degrees of financial distortions, which interact with the firms' pricing decisions because of customer-market considerations. In response to a financial shock, firms in financially weak countries (the...
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I show that the probability that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System staff's forecasts (the "Greenbooks'") overpredicted quarterly real gross domestic product (GDP) growth depends on both the forecast horizon and also whether the forecasted quarter was above or below trend real...
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