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disparate traditions. I make the case for unity between Post-Keynesian and General Equilibrium Theory under the banner of Post …-Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Theory …
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Fifty years ago, the Chicago School argued that flexible exchange rates would insulate employment from foreign economic disturbances: there is no need for policy coordination; flexible exchange rates suffice. Twenty five years later, the Bretton Woods system was gone, and the first generation of...
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developments in the micro-economic theory of imperfect information. These micro-economic models which lead to credit-rationing on …
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This paper, after providing a critique of standard monetary theory based on the transactions demand for money, examines … the effect of monetary policy (changes in reserve requires and open market operations) in a model with competitive, risk … averse banks. The effects of changes in bank net worth and bank's risk perceptions are also analyzed. In deep recessions …
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(crunches, freezes, crises) in theory, and as recently observed in actual economies …
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This paper considers the implications, for macroeconomic modeling and for monetary policy, of the interrelationships among money, credit and nonfinancial economic activity. Data for the United States since World War II show that the volume of outstanding credit is as closely related to economic...
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With loan commitments negotiated in advance, the use of tight money to restrain nominal spending has asymmetric effects upon different categories of borrowers. This can reduce efficiency, even though aggregate demand is stabilized. This is illustrated in the context of an equilibrium model of...
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In the aftermath of the Great Recession, there is a growing consensus, even among central bank officials, concerning the limitations of monetary policy. This paper provides an explanation for the ineffectiveness of monetary policy, and in doing so provides a new framework for thinking about...
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Most contributions to optimal tax theory have assumed that all prices, including that of leisure, are known with … paper begins with a discussion of the positive theory of wage taxation and labor supply under uncertainty. This is followed …
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This paper examines the risk aspects of an investment-based defined contribution Social Security plan. We focus on the … risk after the plan is fully phased in. Individuals deposit a fraction of wages to a Personal Retirement Account (PRA … cushion' that protects the individual from the risk of an unacceptably low level of benefits. For example, PRA deposits of 6 …
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