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An investigation of the gains from commitment in monetary policy

Schaumburg, Ernst; Tambalotti, Andrea - 2003

This paper proposes a simple framework for analyzing a continuum of monetary policy rules characterized by differing degrees of credibility, in which commitment and discretion become special cases of what we call quasi commitment. The monetary policy authority is assumed to formulate optimal...

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CONDI: A cost-of-nominal-distortions index

Eusepi, Stefano; Hobijn, Bart; Tambalotti, Andrea - 2009

We construct a price index with weights for the prices of different PCE (personal consumption expenditures) goods chosen to minimize the welfare costs of nominal distortions. In this cost-of-nominal-distortions index (CONDI), the weights are computed in a multi-sector New Keynesian model with...

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Gazing at r-star : a hysteresis perspective

Beaudry, Paul; Kartashova, Katya; Meh, Césaire Assah - 2023 - Last updated: January 12, 2023

Many explanations for the decline in real interest rates over the last 30 years point to the role that population aging or rising income inequality plays in increasing the long-run aggregate demand for assets. Notwithstanding the importance of such factors, the starting point of this paper is to...

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The role of bank capital in the propagation of shocks

Meh, Césaire Assah (contributor); Moran, Kevin (contributor) - 2008

Recent events in financial markets have underlined the importance of analyzing the link between the financial health of banks and real economic activity. This paper contributes to this analysis by constructing a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the balance sheet of banks affects the...

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Real effects of price stability with endogenous nominal indexation

Meh, Césaire Assah; Quadrini, Vincenzo; Terajima, Yaz - 2009

We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because nominal prices are observed with delay as in Jovanovic & Ueda (1997). More constrained firms sign contracts that are less indexed to the nominal price and, as a result, their...

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Bank leverage regulation and macroeconomic dynamics

Christensen, Ian; Meh, Césaire Assah; Moran, Kevin - 2011

This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and economic cycles and examines its interaction with monetary policy. The framework used is a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with banks and bank capital, in which...

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Financial intermediation, liquidity and inflation

Chiu, Jonathan (contributor); … - 2008

This paper develops a search-theoretic model to study the interaction between banking and monetary policy and how this interaction affects the allocation and welfare. Regarding how banking affects the welfare costs of inflation: First, we find that, with banking, inflation generates smaller...

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The welfare cost of inflation revisited : the role of financial innovation and household heterogeneity

Cao, Shutao; Meh, Césaire Assah; Ríos-Rull, José-Víctor - 2018

We document that, across households, the money consumption ratio increases with age and decreases with consumption, and … that there has been a large increase in the money consumption ratio during the recent era of very low interest rates. We … construct an overlapping generations (OLG) model of money holdings for transaction purposes subject to age (older households use …

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Evaluating interest rate rules in an estimated DSGE model

Cúrdia, Vasco; Ferrero, Andrea; Cee Ng, Ging; … - 2011

The empirical DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) literature pays surprisingly little attention to the behavior of the monetary authority. Alternative policy rule specifications abound, but their relative merit is rarely discussed. We contribute to filling this gap by comparing the fit...

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The FRBNY DSGE Model

Del Negro, Marco; Eusepi, Stefano; Giannoni, Marc; … - 2013

The goal of this paper is to present the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model developed and used at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The paper describes how the model works, how it is estimated, how it rationalizes past history, including the Great Recession, and how it is...

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