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likely to adopt technologies and increase productivity …
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The basic competitive model with freely available technology is suited for static industries but misleading as applied to major innovative economies for which development of new technologies equals in magnitude around 10% of gross domestic investment. We distinguish free generic technology from...
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We define the Fisherian Golden Rule measure of bond market inflation expectations as the difference between bond rates … and trend real GDP growth rates. The concept is based on the Fisherian theory that an increase in longer-term inflation … rates of interest would equal the growth rate of real output. We compare the bond market inflation experiences of 13 …
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-recession trend, suggesting hysteresis. Second, while inflation has decreased, it has decreased less than anticipated, suggesting a … breakdown of the relation between inflation and activity. To examine the first, we look at 122 recessions over the past 50 years … unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …
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Structural vector autoregressions give conflicting results on the effects of technology shocks on hours. The results depend crucially on the assumed data generating process for hours per capita. We show that the standard measure of hours per capita has significant low frequency movements that...
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Switzerland. Even with wide differences in inflation processes across these countries, there is we find strong evidence that the … term structure does have significant forecasting ability for future changes in inflation, particularly so at long …
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When the goals of internal and external macroeconomic equilibrium are in conflict, sterilized intervention in the foreign exchange market may provide an independent policy instrument through which the central bank can resolve its dilemma in the short run. This paper is concerned with the West...
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variables also significantly reduce inflation in both the short and long run. Given the actual changes in these factors in the … inflation in the latter half of the last decade …
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This paper uses an open economy DSGE model to explore how trade openness affects the transmission of domestic shocks. For some calibrations, closed and open economies appear dramatically different, reminiscent of the implications of Mundell-Fleming style models. However, we argue such stark...
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higher capital intensity. Labor productivity will need to increase over and above this mechanism in order to compensate for …
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