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episodes of sustained rapid rise in equity prices in the 19th and 20th Centuries, and then assess the growth of real output … of increase in market prices -- the booms of 1923-29 and 1994-2000. In general, we find that booms occurred in periods of …
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The Shadow Open Market Committee was formed in 1973 in response to rising inflation and the apparent unwillingness of U.S. policymakers to implement policies necessary to maintain price stability. This paper describes how the Committee's policy views differed from those of most Federal Reserve...
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in a world where prices adjust frictionlessly and there are other transactions media besides bank-created money that are …
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quarter of 2010. Amidst this phenomenal response, land auction and house prices in major cities soared. We argue that the …. Residential land auction prices in eight major cities rose about 100% in 2009, controlling for quality variation. Moreover, higher …
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In this paper we consider a two-country New Open Economy Macroeconomics model, and analyze the optimal monetary policy when countries cooperate in the face of a "global liquidity trap" - i.e., a situation where the two countries are simultaneously caught in liquidity traps. Compared to the...
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The long-running debate about the role of monetary policy in responding to rising asset prices has received renewed … experience of a cycle in house prices and credit from 2002 to 2004, and discussing the role played by various policies during … associated with large, ongoing increases in housing prices and household borrowing …
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Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
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housing prices over nearly a century. Indeed, since the mid-1990s the policy rate had a negative relationship with long … availability of domestic credit and asset prices. The evidence casts doubts on arguments that a moderately different monetary …
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Many advanced economies are heading into an era of fiscal stress: populations are aging and governments have made substantially more promises of old-age benefits than they have made provisions to finance. This paper models the era of fiscal stress as stemming from relentlessly growing promised...
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This paper examines what we have learned and how we should change our thinking about monetary policy strategy in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. It starts with a discussion of where the science of monetary policy was before the crisis and how central banks viewed monetary policy...
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