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We study models incorporating money, household production, and investment in housing. Inflation, as a tax on market … activity, encourages substitution into household production, and thus investment in household capital. Hence, inflation … the channel is economically relevant. We also show models with home production imply higher costs of inflation than models …
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The classical and early neoclassical economists knew that the essential function of money was its role as a medium of … economics: the interaction between specialization and exchange, dual fiat currency regimes, the welfare improving role of money …
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A price dispersion equation is tested with data from the German hyper-inflation. The equation is derived from a version … 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 …
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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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countries with low inflation, the raw relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money is tenuous at best … variability, worsening the fit of a one-for-one relationship between money growth and inflation, and generates a fairly low …This paper investigates whether the quantity theory of money is still alive. We demonstrate three insights. First, for …
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"We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short- and long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on...
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This paper examines whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. We define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...
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This paper reviews, appraises, and critiques theoretical and empirical research on the connections between the operation of the financial system and economic growth. While subject to ample qualifications and countervailing views, the preponderance of evidence suggests that both financial...
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We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short- and long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468457
We examine the link between equity risk premiums and demographic changes using a very long sample over the twentieth century for the US, Japan, UK, Germany and France, and a shorter sample covering the last third of the twentieth century for fifteen countries. We find that demographic variables...
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