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We develop a theory of labor markets with four features: search frictions, worker productivity shocks, wage rigidity, and two-sided lack of commitment. Inefficient job separations occur in the form of endogenous quits and layoffs that are unilaterally initiated whenever a worker's...
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This paper addresses the possible role of bond prices as operating or intermediate targets for monetary policy. The paper begins with a brief review of the mechanisms through which a central bank could, in theory, influence long-term interest rates, and continues with a brief narrative overview...
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The paper generalizes the Taylor principle---the proposition that central banks can stabilize the macroeconomy by raising their interest rate instrument more than one-for-one in response to higher inflation---to an environment in which reaction coefficients in the monetary policy rule evolve...
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credit easing, defined as a combination of lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit …
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ensuring that liquidity would be distributed to those institutions that needed it most. Conceptually, this meant America …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that positive money supply shocks drive short-term interest rates down. We then present a quantitative, general equilibrium model which is consistent with the hypothesis. The two key features of our model are that (i) money...
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We present evidence on the cyclical behavior of small versus large manufacturing firms, and on the response of the two classes of firms to monetary policy. Our goal is to take a step toward quantifying the role of credit market imperfections in the business cycle and in the monetary transmission...
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The paper presents a model of a monetary economy where there are differences in liquidity across assets. Money … on assets, reflecting their differences in liquidity. The model is used, first, to investigate how aggregate activity and … asset prices fluctuate with shocks to productivity and liquidity; second, to examine what role government policy might have …
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