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, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period … prospects. And, rather than seeing the real wage per unit of human capital fall, the West and Japan see it rise by one fifth by …
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Using a small empirical model of inflation, output, and money estimated on U.S. data, we compare the relative … performance of monetary targeting and inflation targeting. The results show that monetary targeting would be quite inefficient …, with both higher inflation and output variability. This is true even with a deterministic money demand formulation. In this …
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In this paper, we outline the cost minimizing behavior of oligopoly firms and the price adjustment process in the labor market which underlie the traditional formulation of aggregate wage-price behavior in the U.S., and show that resulting equations applied to U.S. data remain stable before and...
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This paper focuses on developing and adapting statistical models of counts (non-negative integers) in the context of panel data and using them to analyze the relationship between patents and R&D expenditures. The model used is an application and generalization of the Poisson distribution to...
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This paper develops a new procedure for assessing how well a given dynamic economic model describes a set of economic time series. To answer the question, the variables in the model are augmented with just enough error so that the model can exactly mimic the second moment properties of the...
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focuses solely on stabilizing nominal wage inflation. Furthermore, this simple wage stabilization rule is remarkably robust to …
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-time estimates of GDP, inflation, unemployment or any other macroeconomic variable of interest. In this paper I focus on the problem …
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A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are supported by estimates from litigation studies suggesting that the majority of patents granted by the U.S. patent office should not have been issued. This paper proposes a new...
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We quantify the importance of non-monetary news in central bank communication. Using evidence from four major central banks and a comprehensive classification of events, we decompose news conveyed by central banks into news about monetary policy, economic growth, and separately, shocks to risk...
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Three large current account imbalances -- one deficit (the United States) and two surpluses (Japan and the Euro area … process that involves real depreciation in its exchange rate. For Japan, a little more than 1 percentage point (of GDP) of the …
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