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New Keynesian models : not yet useful for policy analysis

Chari, Varadarajan V. (contributor); … - 2008

In the 1970s macroeconomists often disagreed bitterly. Macroeconomists have now largely converged on method, model design, and macroeconomic policy advice. The disagreements that remain all stem from the practical implementation of the methodology. Some macroeconomists think that New Keynesian...

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Sales and the real effects of monetary policy

Kehoe, Patrick J. (contributor); … - 2007

In the data, a sizable fraction of price changes are temporary price reductions referred to as sales. Existing models include no role for sales. Hence, when confronted with data in which a large fraction of price changes are sales related, the models must either exclude sales from the data or...

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Comparing alternative representations, methodologies, and decompositions in business cycle accounting

Chari, Varadarajan V. (contributor); … - 2006

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If exchange rates are random walks then almost everything we say about monetary policy is wrong

Alvarez, Fernando (contributor); Atkeson, Andrew (contributor) - 2007

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The role of international carbon offsets in a second-best climate policy : a numerical evaluation

De Cian, Enrica; Tavoni, Massimo - 2010

International carbon offsets have been promoted since the Kyoto Protocol and an increasing number of countries have implemented or proposed cap-and-trade schemes with international trading, even though with quantitative or qualitative restrictions. Those limits reflect the trade-off between...

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Climate policy and the optimal balance between mitigation, adaptation and unavoided damage

Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - 2010 - This draft: February 2010

It has become commonly accepted that a successful climate strategy should compound mitigation and adaptation. The accurate combination between adaptation and mitigation that can best address climate change is still an open question. This paper proposes a framework that integrates mitigation,...

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The 2008 WITCH model : new model features and baseline

Bosetti, Valentina; Tavoni, Massimo; De Cian, Enrica; … - 2009

WITCH is an energy-economy-climate model developed by the climate change group at FEEM. The model has been extensively used in the past 3 years for the economic analysis of climate change policies. WITCH is a hybrid top-down economic model with a representation of the energy sector of medium...

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International technology spillovers in climatte-economy models : two possible approaches

De Cian, Enrica (contributor) - 2006

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Sticky prices and sectoral real exchange rates

Kehoe, Patrick J. (contributor); … - 2007

theory for persistence have some modest support: in the data, the stickier is the price of a good the more persistent is its … real exchange rate, but the theory predicts much more variation in persistence than is in the data. The predictions of the … theory for volatiity fare less well: in the data, the stickier is the price of a good the smaller is its conditional variance …

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Reply to Solow

Chari, Varadarajan V. (contributor); … - 2007

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