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Broadly defined, macroeconomic forecasting is alive and well. Nonstructural forecasting which is based largely on reduced-form correlations, has always been well and continues toquot; improve. Structural forecasting, which aligns itself with economic theory and hence rises andquot; falls with...
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monetary rules was responsible for thirty years of low and stable inflation in the period from 1979 through 2009. I present a …
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impact on monetary economics of Laidler's work on the demand for money and the quantity theory of money; the transmission … mechanism on the link between money and nominal income; the Phillips Curve; the monetary approach to the balance of payments …
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monetarism: Milton Friedman and the team of Karl Brunner and Allan Meltzer. Friedman did not explicitly state the reasons he … generally chose not to use the IS-LM model in rejecting Keynesian views on the demand function for money, the role of autonomous … three assets: base money, government debt, and real capital. They set up a model with financial institutions and utilized it …
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-pricing theory, is calibrated to analyze the effects of monetary policy and financial innovation. We show that inflation can raise … output, employment and investment, plus improve housing and stock markets. For the baseline calibration, optimal inflation is …
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This paper studies why the General Theory had so much impact on the economics profession through the 1960s, why that impact began to wane in the 1970s, and why many economic policymakers cling to many of the tenets of the General Theory. We discuss three key elements along these lines, including...
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-o¤ between inflation and unemployment. Distributional effects also generate a quantitatively significant aggregate demand channel …We develop a New Monetarist model with expenditure and unemployment risks that generates equilibria with non …-degenerate distribution of money holdings. Distributional effects can overturn key insights of the model with degenerate distributions, e …
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This paper provides an outline of the historical development of Keynesian macroeconomics. It first argues that the business-cycle model of J.M. Keynes's General Theory featured analytical ingredients that were present in earlier writings and attained its theoretical precision only in...
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We investigate the role of macroprudential policies in mitigating liquidity traps driven by deleveraging, using a simple Keynesian model. When constrained agents engage in deleveraging, the interest rate needs to fall to induce unconstrained agents to pick up the decline in aggregate demand....
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An otherwise conventional Keynesian macro model is modified to include inventories of final goods by (1) drawing a distinction between production and final sales, and (2) allowing for a negative effect of the level of inventories on production. Two models are presented: one in which the labor...
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