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How Successful are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar - 2016

that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion … of bank credit in total debt for any of the firms. We discuss the policy implications of the findings …

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Design Choices for Central Bank Digital Currency : Policy and Technical Considerations

Allen, Sarah - 2020

Central banks around the world are exploring and in some cases even piloting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs …

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Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation Under Incomplete Markets

Anand, Rahul - 2010

price sector influence aggregate demand and, for monetary policy to have its desired effect, the central bank has to … frictions a welfare-maximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting a target based on headline rather …

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Distributional Effects of Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2015

We develop a two-sector, heterogeneous-agent model with incomplete financial markets to study the distributional effects and aggregate welfare implications of alternative monetary policy rules in emerging market economies. Relative to inflation targeting, exchange rate management benefits...

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The Impact of Labor Markets on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model

Christoffel, Kai; Kuester, Keith; Linzert, Tobias - 2021

Real wages are a key determinant of marginal costs. The latter themselves are a driving force of inflation. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process. We model search and matching frictions in the labour market in an otherwise standard New-Keynesian closed economy...

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Assessing Australian Monetary Policy in the Twenty-First Century

Gross, Isaac; Leigh, Andrew - 2022

Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in … high during 2016-2019, keeping inflation below the Reserve Bank's target band. Optimal monetary policy in 2016-2019 would …

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What Measure of Inflation Should a Developing Country Central Bank Target?

Anand, Rahul - 2015

In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in the context of developing economies, where a large proportion of households are credit constrained...

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Reputation and Credit Market Formation : How Relational Incentives and Legal Contract Enforcement Interact

Fehr, Ernst - 2009

The evidence suggests that relational contracting and legal rules play an important role in credit markets but on the basis of the prevailing field data it is difficult to pin down their causal impact. Here we show experimentally that relational incentives are a powerful causal determinant for...

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Monetary Policy and Inequality Under Labor Market Frictions and Capital-Skill Complementarity

Dolado, Juan J. - 2018

In order to improve our understanding of the channels through which monetary policy has distributional consequences, we build a New Keynesian model with incomplete asset markets, asymmetric search and matching (SAM) frictions across skilled and unskilled workers and, foremost, capital-skill...

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Causal Effects of Monetary Shocks : Semiparametric Conditional Independence Tests with a Multinomial Propensity Score

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kuersteiner, Guido M. - 2021

Macroeconomists have long been concerned with the causal effects of monetary policy. When the identification of causal effects is based on a selection-on-observables assumption, non-causality amounts to the conditional independence of outcomes and policy changes. This paper develops a...

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