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A cross-country investigation of macroeconomic asymmetries
Verbrugge, Randal J. - EconWPA - 1998
Using a recently introduced nonparametric test, I investigate two important and distinct asymmetries in cross-country quarterly macroeconomic time series. Asymmetries are suggested by many theories (old and new), and those discovered aid in the selection of the appropriate nonlinear time series...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412800
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Debt-Deflation: Concepts, and a Stylised Model
Peter, Goetz von - EconWPA - 2005
This paper proposes a model of how agents adjust their asset holdings in response to losses in general equilibrium. By emphasising the relation between deflation and financial distress, we capture some original features of the early debt-deflation literature, such as distress selling,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126279
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Should we be afraid of Friedman's rule?
Uhlig, Harald - EconWPA - 2000
Should one think of zero nominal interest rates as an undesirable liquidity trap or as the desirable Friedman rule? I use three different frameworks to discuss this issue. First, I restate Cole and Kocherlakota's (1998) analysis of Friedman's rule: short run increases in the money stock -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561156
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Using Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Share of Backward- Looking Firms
Sondergaard, Lars - EconWPA - 2003
This paper examines the small-sample distribution of the instrumental variables (IV) estimation procedure employed by Gali and Gertler (1999) to assess the empirical fit of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) and the hybrid Phillips Curve (HPC). Their estimation method is now widely used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126218
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Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Turkey, 1987-2003 (in Turkish)
Kibritcioglu, Aykut; Kibritcioglu, Bengi - EconWPA - 2004
Real exchange rate misalignment measures deviations of actual real exchange rate from its long-run, or equilibrium, level. Policy makers and many researchers are interested in predicting and monitoring misalignment in the foreign exchange market, because, in many cases, it is closely related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412763
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076716
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INFLATION AND PRICE DISPERSION IN EQUITY MARKETS AND IN GOODS AND SERVICES MARKETS
Popper, David Parsley Helen - EconWPA - 2002
An empirical link between inflation and price dispersion has been well established in goods and services markets – both …. Specifically, we examine the link between inflation and price dispersion in an empirical setting patently lacking the market … inflation-dispersion link in goods and services markets with a matched panel of equity market prices. Surprisingly, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076784
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Who Controls the Price Level?
Erdogdu, Oya S. - EconWPA - 2003
Under the guidance of different theories and the problem of dominance and activeness, this study gives a survey of the rapidly growing literature on Fiscal Theory of Price Level, which opens up new horizons in a non–Ricardian world and questions the effectiveness of monetary policy on price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076798
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The Cause of the Great Inflation: Interactions between the Government and the Monetary Policymakers
Harashima, Taiji - EconWPA - 2005
The paper offers a new explanation for the cause of the Great Inflation by constructing a model that explicitly … separates the roles of government and monetary policymakers. A mechanism that inflation can accelerate even if an inflation … target is low is uncovered. The model solves the puzzle of the observed high inflation target during the Great Inflation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124998
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Some benefits of reducing inflation in transition economies
Blaszkiewicz, Monika; Konieczny, Jerzy; Myslinskaa, Anna; … - EconWPA - 2003
We analyse welfare effects of the interactions between the tax system and inflation in Poland and in Ukraine, using the … framework developed by Feldstein (1997, 1999). This approach stresses the fact that inflation increases distortions created by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125002