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rates, and the shift in the response of the term structure of interest rates to inflation and output. Although the theory …This paper shows that the theory of monetary policy rules is able to explain, predict, and help understand a variety of …
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In the absence of monetary superneutrality, inflation affects capital accumulation and the demand for real balances …
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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 stress incomplete information. First,if there is...
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This paper develops a model of inflation inertia based on optimizing forward looking staggered price setting in a small … open economy. Unlike in current models of sticky prices, transitions to a lower steady state inflation rate take time even … these output losses and the gains from smaller inflationary distortions. For reasonable parameter values inflation …
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We find conditions for the Friedman rule to be optimal in three standard models of money. These conditions are homotheticity and separability assumptions on preferences similar to those in the public finance literature on optimal uniform commodity taxation. We show that there is no connection...
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paper considers whether the various changes that have taken place were influenced primarily by economic theory or by …
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general equilibrium theory in a new way, we provide an alternative model and an alternative narrative to New …
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the Taylor principle, also exhibit solutions with explosive inflation that cannot be ruled out by any transversality …
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This paper reconsiders a result obtained by Sargent and Wallace, namely, that price level indeterminacy obtains in their well-known model if the monetary authorities adopt a policy feedback rule for the interest rate rather than the money stock. Since the Federal Reserve seems often to have used...
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monopolistically competitive pricing, higher-order expectations are crucial for aggregate inflation dynamics, as argued by Phelps (1983 … disturbance, and a delayed effect on inflation, as found in VAR studies …
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