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with economic theory and hence rises andquot; falls with theory, receded following the decline of Keynesian theory. In … recent years powerful new dynamic stochastic general equilibrium theory has been developed macroeconomic forecasting is …
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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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On December 1933, John Maynard Keyes published an open letter to President Roosevelt, where he wrote: “The recent gyrations of the dollar have looked to me more like a gold standard on the booze than the ideal managed currency of my dreams.” In this paper I use high frequency data to...
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expansion appears to be the source of Kuska's erroneous indictment of "Keynesian" balance-of-payments theory.We also establish …
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business-cycle model of J.M. Keynes's General Theory featured analytical ingredients that were present in earlier writings and … characteristic of Keynesian theory, namely, a postulated stickiness of nominal prices that enables aggregate demand to play a greater …
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What can macroeconomic history offer macroeconomic theorists and macroeconometricians? Macroeconomic history offers more than longer time series or special `controlled experiments.' It suggests an historical definition of the economy, which has implications for macroeconometric methods. The...
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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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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 … qualitatively to patterns discussed in the General Theory, that econometric developments in the area of simultaneous equations made …
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