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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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Technology diffusion and growth

Luttmer, Erzo Gerrit Jan - 2009

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New goods and the size distribution of firms

Luttmer, Erzo Gerrit Jan (contributor) - 2007

This paper describes a simple model of aggregate and firm growth based on the introduction of new goods. An incumbent firm can combine labor with blueprints for goods it already produces to develop new blueprints. Every worker in the economy is also a potential entrepreneur who can design a new...

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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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Models of growth and firm heterogeneity

Luttmer, Erzo Gerrit Jan - 2010

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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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Consumer search and firm growth

Luttmer, Erzo Gerrit Jan (contributor) - 2006

This paper presents a simple model of search and matching between consumers and firms. The firm size distribution has a Pareto-like right tail if the population of consumers grows at a positive rate and the mean rate at which incumbent firms gain customers is also positive. This happens in...

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