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annual wholesale price indexes for the period 1948-76. The data on money shocks are the unanticipated money growth series … results are negative. They reject the hypothesis that unexpected money shocks, as measured by Barro, affect price dispersion …
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magnitude of the unperceived money growth. The testing of this hypothesis requires two preliminary steps. First, a price … unperceived money growth. This estimation implies the postulation of an available information set and also a function relating the … variables in this set to money creation. The function used was based on considerations related to government demand for revenue …
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We formulate a generalization of the traditional medium-of-exchange function of money in contexts where there is … that the option to settle transactions directly with money strengthens the stance of sellers of goods and services vis … "latent money demand" considerations imply monetary policy remains effective through medium-of-exchange channels even if the …
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central bank money. The key differences between cash and central bank digital currency (CBDC) include transaction efficiency …
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Both academic thinking about monetary economics and the practice of monetary policy have changed dramatically since 1971-1973, when the rational expectations revolution was beginning and the Bretton Woods system was crumbling. The present paper considers whether the various changes that have...
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case, the optimal steady state is characterized by a constant nominal money supply …
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This paper demonstrates that if current shocks are observed instantaneously, output can be stabilized perfectly for completely general supply disturbances, using simple monetary rules based only on: (i) the current shock, (ii) the previous forecast of the current shock, (iii) the forecast for...
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stochastic, rational expectation model that distinguishes between inside and outside money. The model also can be used to study … between inside and outside money and temporary and permanent base money disturbances. Financial sector disturbances, as well … that anticipated money affects output. We argue that this result is robust in the sense that many "reasonable" models which …
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Can nominal contracts make a difference for the neutrality of money if these arise endogenously in general equilibrium … depart from Lucas in assuming that (1) agents have complete information about the money stock; (ii) fundamental shocks to the ….With an exogenous restriction on contracts, money is fully neutral. But, when this restrictionis lifted, efficient risk …
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This paper examines the implications of an endogenous money supply for the perceived(by econometricians) and actual … nonneutrality of money in rational expectations models of the class put forward by Lucas (1972, 1973) and Barro(1976, 1980) that … King (1981) and Boschen-Grossman (1983).Thus, an econometrician might erroneously conclude that money is nonneutral ina …
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