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The main aim of this article is to investigate the sources of non- neutrality in policy games involving one or more trade unions. We use a simple set up in order to clearly expose the basic mechanisms that also work in more complex frameworks. We show that there are common roots in the...
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The main aim of this article is to investigate the sources of non- neutrality in policy games involving one or more trade unions. We use a simple set up in order to clearly expose the basic mechanisms that also work in more complex frameworks. We show that there are common roots in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561230
We analyze the endogenous appearance of money substitutes, their interaction with outside money, and resulting … productive, individually optimizing agents and less productive colluding agents who issue universally acceptable money … that the agents issuing money substitutes survive by their collusion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561089
The New Keynesian model with rational expectations unrealistically predicts that unanticipated credible changes in the inflation target lead to an immediate jump in the inflation level while the output gap is unaffected. We set up a theoretical model where agents learn the behaviour of the...
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In this paper, we examine the incentives for central bank activism and caution in a two-country open-economy model with uncertainty and learning. We find that the presence of a strategic interaction between the home and foreign central banks creates an additional motivation for caution in...
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money growth might be an important determinant of cyclical developments in real GDP beyond effects already captured by short … properties are also maintained when looking at a broader set of non-monetary indicator variables. Narrow money therefore seems …. As a result, once the information from narrow money is taken into account, what matters more for the forecast performance …
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This paper studies the gain from using money as an indicator when monetary policy in made under data uncertainty. We … state of the economy. Money reveals some of the private sector’s information to the policymaker, especially if there is a … forward looking element in money demand. We show that observing money can considerably reduce the loss that is due to …
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customers. These relations deal with value (quantities and prices), payment (subsistence, barter, money, and bond) and …
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This paper tests for long run effects of money on real expenditures in the U.S. over the 1959-2002 period. Real … money on long run reallocations of consumption expenditures among durables, nondurables, and services. The time series …
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This paper examines, in the context of future EMU membership of the Central and Eastern European countiries (CEECs), the interaction between fiscal policy and the price level in different exchange rate regimes. The theoretical framework is based on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL)....
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