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We show that the stock market may fail to aggregate information even if it appears to be efficient, and that the resulting decrease in the information content of prices may drastically reduce welfare. We solve a macroeconomic model in which information about fundamentals is dispersed and...
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Household investors chase stock market returns. Surveys suggest that households intend to "ride the bubble" by buying …
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A bona fide currency functions as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account, but bitcoin largely … investment than a currency …
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quality” to the international currency. However, in the Euro crisis, that of the Sterling pound became equally low, while the … deviations across the European currencies in the two crises. Currency-specific money market risk was critical in explaining the …
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More than half of U.S. currency circulates abroad. As a result, much of the seignorage income of the United States is … foreign demand for its currency. In the absence of such demand, the model implies that the Friedman rule--deflation at the … foreign demand for domestic currency is taken into account, the Friedman rule ceases to be Ramsey optimal. Calibrated versions …
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to be invoiced in the importer's currency. We offer a potential theoretical explanation for the empirical link between …
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Over time, there has been a tendency for political jurisdictions and residents to converge on a single currency … uniform currency, insofar as it is free of counterparty and liquidity risk, facilitates economic activity. But will digital … maintain their stability is doubtful. The one unit that can clearly meet these challenges is central bank digital currency. But …
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We show that quot;commodity currencyquot; exchange rates have remarkably robust power in predicting global commodity prices, both in-sample and out-of-sample, and against a variety of alternative benchmarks. This result is of particular interest to policymakers, given the lack of deep forward...
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establishment of currency unions, the monetizing of recently acquired colonies, preferential trade arrangements, and customs unions …
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A central assumption of open economy macro models with nominal rigidities relates to the currency in which goods are … priced, whether there is so-called producer currency pricing or local currency pricing. This has important implications for … exchange rate pass-through and optimal exchange rate policy. We show, using novel transaction level information on currency and …
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