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Helicopter Drops and Liquidity Traps
Amador, Manuel; Bianchi, Javier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show that if the central bank operates without commitment and faces constraints on its balance sheet, helicopter drops can be a useful stabilization tool during a liquidity trap. With commitment, even with balance sheet constraints, helicopter drops are irrelevant
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An Analysis of Pandemic-Era Inflation in 11 Economies
Blanchard, Olivier; Bernanke, Ben - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In a collaborative project with ten central banks, we have investigated the causes of the post-pandemic global inflation, building on our earlier work for the United States. Globally, as in the United States, pandemic-era inflation was due primarily to supply disruptions and sharp increases in...
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The Fiscal Consequences of Missing an Inflation Target
Andreolli, Michele; Rey, Hélène - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt levels and different maturity structures. The monetary-fiscal nexus is central to the functioning of the euro area. We focus on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the...
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Fiscal and Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents
Auclert, Adrien; Rognlie, Matthew; Straub, Ludwig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In the past decade, a new paradigm for fiscal and monetary policy analysis has emerged, combining the canonical macro model of income and wealth inequality with the New Keynesian model. These Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian ("HANK") models feature new transmission channels and allow for the...
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Temporary Price Changes and the Real Effects of Monetary Policy
Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2008
policy analysis, researchers should use a menu cost model like ours or at least a third, theory-based shortcut: set the Calvo …
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Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents : Discretion, Commitment, and Timeless Policy
Dávila, Eduardo; Schaab, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper characterizes optimal monetary policy in a canonical heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian (HANK) model with wage rigidity. Under discretion, a utilitarian planner faces the incentive to redistribute towards indebted, high marginal utility households, which is a new source of inflationary...
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Fiscal Histories
Cochrane, John H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The fiscal theory states that inflation adjusts so that the real value of government debt equals the present value of … fiscal theory to interpret historical episodes, including the rise and fall of inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, the long … pegs, the ends of hyperinflations, currency crashes, and the success of inflation targets. Going forward, fiscal theory …
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Monetary Policy without Commitment
Afrouzi, Hassan; Halac, Marina; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the implications of central bank credibility for long-run inflation and inflation dynamics. We introduce central bank lack of commitment into a standard non-linear New Keynesian economy with sticky-price monopolistically competitive firms. Inflation is driven by the...
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u* = √uv
Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Most governments are mandated to maintain their economies at full employment. We propose that the best marker of full employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of labor--both jobseeking and recruiting. The...
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Inflation Past, Present and Future : Fiscal Shocks, Fed Response, and Fiscal Limits
Cochrane, John H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Our current inflation stemmed from a fiscal shock. The Fed is slow to react. Why? Will the Fed's slow reaction spur more inflation? I write a simple model that encompasses the Fed's mild projections and its slow reaction, and traditional views that inflation will surge without swift rate rises....
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