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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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Money and capital as competing media of exchange in a news economy

Andolfatto, David; Martin, Fernando M. - 2009

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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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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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Policy and welfare effects of within-period commitment

Martin, Fernando M. - 2011

I study the implications of different institutional frameworks for the conduct of fiscal policy, under the assumption that the government cannot commit to future policy choices. The environments analyzed vary on whether the government is endowed with the ability to commit to beginning-of-period...

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Moral hazard and lack of commitment in dynamic economies

Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Martin, Fernando M. - 2011

We revisit the role of limited commitment in a dynamic risk-sharing setting with private information. We show that a Markov-perfect equilibrium, in which agent and insurer cannot commit beyond the current period, and an infinitely-long contract to which only the insurer can commit, implement...

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Dynamic optimal insurance and lack of commitment

Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Martin, Fernando M. - 2011

This paper analyzes dynamic risk-sharing contracts between profit-maximizing insurers and risk-averse agents who face idiosyncratic income uncertainty and may self-insure through savings. We study Markov-perfect insurance contracts in which neither party can commit beyond the current period. We...

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