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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth," describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation and … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …
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This paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in response to permanent changes in …, we construct an empirical model of the Spanish economy and, in this context, we evaluate the long-run inflation …
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The paper examines how the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff depends on the degree to which wage-price decisions …
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The paper seeks to lay out a stock-flow-based theoretical framework that provides a foundation for a general theory of … properly general theory of pricing that can be applied to any market - whether financial, real, or a real market that has been …
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An apparent disconnect has taken place between inflation and economic activity in the US over the last 25 years, with … price inflation remaining remarkably stable in spite of large fluctuations in the output gap and other measures of economic … implications for demand and supply curve slopes. Equipped with New Keynesian theory and estimated SVAR models, we decompose the …
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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...
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This paper contributes to the policy evaluation literature by developing new strategies to study alternative policy rules. We compare optimal rules to simple rules within canonical monetary policy models. In our context, an optimal rule represents the solution to an intertemporal optimization...
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affects how agents learn from new information. We show that as inflation has risen in developed economies, both households and … firms have become more attentive and informed about inflation, leading them to respond less to exogenously provided … information about inflation and monetary policy. This observation holds for both firms and households. We also study the effects …
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We investigate the heterogeneity in the effects of monetary policy shocks on the distribution of wages and hours worked, using unique contract-level data from the Czech labor market and identifying monetary policy shocks using a narrative approach based on market suprises in interest rate...
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inflation and unemployment. The main policy implication of this principle is that all monetary policy can aim for is (modest …
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