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Credit vs. payment services: Financial development and economic activity revisited
Bebczuk, Ricardo; Burdisso, Tamara; Sangiácomo, Máximo - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to assess whether the banking system, over and beyond its credit function, has a significant impact on per capita GDP by providing means of payment. An annual database of 85 countries spanning the 1980-2008 period is exploited to this end. On the descriptive front,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325088
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What do banks do? What should banks do?
Wray, L. Randall - 2010
Before we can reform the financial system, we need to understand what banks do; or, better, what banks should do. This paper will examine the later work of Hyman Minsky at the Levy Institute, on his project titled 'Reconstituting the United States' Financial Structure.' This led to a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286489
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Exchange-rate stability causes deterioration of the productive sphere and destabilizes developing economies
Huerta González, Arturo - 2024
For Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey (2020), the MMT literature overemphasizes the choice of the exchange rate regime and the relevance of a flexible exchange rate regime, as well as the ultimate effect of that choice upon the policy space. In addition, they argue that the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581843
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Why did Czech Banks Switch From Loans in 1995?
Nilsen, Jeffrey H. - 1998
? Using data from the Czech National Bank and data on individual Czech banks, I find evidence that in 1995 banks are provided … portfolio switch and find that the central bank instituted a monetary tightening during a regime of fixed exchange rates and … mobile capital. The central bank sterilized the continuing capital inflows. The resulting higher interbank interest rates and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430003
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New Keynesian dynamics in a low interest rate environment
Braun, R. Anton; Körber, Lena Mareen - 2011
Recent research has found that the dynamic properties of the New Keynesian model can be very different when the nominal interest rate is zero. Improvements in technology and reductions in the labor tax rate lower economic activity, and the size of the government purchase output multiplier can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292223
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Greenspan and the Greenbook
Tchaidze, Robert R. - 2002
A vast literature has emerged using Taylor rules to analyze monetary policy Although very attractive both theoretically and empirically such rules imply a mechanical response by the policy variable to fundamental ones This study looks for empirical evidence of a more sophisticated monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293458
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An inventory of simple monetary policy rules in a new Keynesian macroeconomic model
Lubik, Thomas A.; Marzo, Massimiliano - 2003
We derive necessary and suffcient conditions for simple monetary policy rules that guarantee equilibrium determinacy in the New Keynesian monetary model. Our modeling framework is derived from a fully specified optimization model that is still amenable to analytical characterisation. The...
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Optimal Monetary Policy under Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity
Carlsson, Mikael; Westermark, Andreas - 2007
We develop a New Keynesian model with staggered price and wage setting where downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) arises endogenously through the wage bargaining institutions. It is shown that the optimal (discretionary) monetary policy response to changing economic conditions then becomes...
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Interest Rate Smoothing versus Serially Correlated Errors in Taylor Rules: Testing the Tests
Welz, Peter; Österholm, Pär - 2005
high coefficient on the lagged interest rate term may be a consequence of an incorrectly specified central bank reaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321535
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The Rise and Fall of U.S. Inflation Persistence
Beechey, Meredith; Österholm, Pär - 2007
implications about the evolution of the Federal Reserve's monetary-policy preferences. Standard models of central bank optimization … predict that the central bank's preference for output stability is a determinant of inflation persistence. Hence, time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321537