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illustrate the use of this approximation, we use it to characterize the change in the nature of the Phillips curve and the money-inflation … change in money growth-inflation relation …
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inflation, and that the optimal monetary policy is that which maximizes real balances. We also show that the real rate of … interest is not invariant to monetary policy: inflation lowers the real rate …
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This paper presents a model of a high-inflation economy. The model includes the government budget constraint and money … demand equation of Cagan's 1956 model; an accelerationist Phillips curve that captures inflation inertia; and an aggregate …-spending equation that accounts for the effects of the inflation tax. The paper derives the dynamic effects of fiscal policy, incomes …
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A long standing issue in macroeconomics is that of the relation of imperfect competition to fluctuations in output. In this paper we examine the relation between monopolistic competition and the role of aggregate demand in the determination of output. We first show that monopolistically...
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The performance of empirical money demand equations over the past decade raises serious questions about money demand predictability. A variety of specifications were presented to explain past episodes of apparent money demand instability, but their success in predicting future money demand is...
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Fluctuations of business activity in the United States clearly have their monetary and financial side, but these aspects of U.S. economic fluctuations exhibit few quantitative regularities that have persisted unchanged across spans of tine over which the nation's financial markets have...
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This paper conducts a theoretical comparison of the potential effectiveness, in terms of money stock controllability, of interest rate and reserve instruments. Whereas previous studies have been basically static, the present analysis is carried out in the context of a dynamic macroeconomic model...
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rate of inflation. He also examines the question of gradualist versus "cold-shower" policies and the criteria for selecting …
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) There is no permanent tradeoff between unemployment and inflation or any other characteristic of the path of the price level …
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of business cycle theory relates this finding to temporary confusions between absolute and relative price changes. These … shifts in nominal aggregates is subject to question. Another strand of theory, based on long-term nominal contracts and …
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