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with firms setting pricing policies instead of price levels. In response to permanent or highly persistent monetary policy …
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Empirically, output and asset returns are highly positively correlated across the United States and the other major industrialized countries. Standard business cycle models that assume flexible prices and wages, in the Real Business Cycle tradition, have great difficulties explaining this fact....
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This paper presents a model of staggered price setting that allows for a flexible distribution of the durations of the … prices underlying aggregate price behavior, and estimates it with U.S. data. When tested against an unrestricted version of … distribution of price durations—with clusters on the first, fourth, and eighth quarter after prices are set—easily passes the same …
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Empirical evidence suggests that goods are highly heterogeneous with respect to the degree of price rigidity. We … stability under adaptive learning for interest rate rules that respond to inflation measures differing in their degree of price … sector with low price stickiness are more prone to generate macroeconomic instability than rules that respond exclusively to …
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high degree of price stickiness, we show that not much equity diversification is required to replicate the complete …
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Exchange rate-based inflation stabilization (ERBS) policies are associated with a boom-recession cycle in economic activity and sustained real exchange rate appreciation. A class of models in the literature has explained these empirical regularities with the lack of credibility of the...
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This paper develops a two-country monetary DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) model in which households choose a portfolio of home and foreign equities, and a forward position in foreign exchange. Some goods prices are set without full information of the state. Home and foreign...
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cycles and monetary policy in a sticky-price, dynamic general equilibrium model of a small open economy. We find from the … interest rate rule that targets inflation in the sticky-price sector of the economy …
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Introducing habit formation into an open economy macroeconomic model with price stickiness, we examine the …
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