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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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(crunches, freezes, crises) in theory, and as recently observed in actual economies …
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virtually absent. The paper provides a critique of the transactions based approach to monetary theory, and sketches a general … equilibrium formulation of the theory. The paper traces out some of the policy implications of the theory. We show that certain …
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This paper provides a critique of standard theories of money, in particular those based on money as a medium of exchange. Money is important because of the relationship between money and credit. The process of judging credit worthiness, in which banks play a central role, involves the collection...
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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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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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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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-generating strategy typically lowers the fund's risk-adjusted excess return due to frictions such as price pressure. When the manager is … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking … sufficiently poor fund performances substantially curtail managerial risk-taking, provide strong incentives to de-leverage, and …
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