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price inflation accompanied by a substantial fall in the rate of unemployment. Therefore, the new monetary policy in Canada …
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-rate-adjusted (REX) price level and the output gap can replicate the behavior of the rate of REX inflation and the output gap under …
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The crisis, in a dazzling way, shows not only that state regulation of financial activities is ineffective, but that political subordination of this activity, rather than an obligation to make a profit, thus creating a higher value than is consumed, leads, in the long term, to an unsustainable...
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What can history tell us about the relationship between the banking system, financial crises, the global economy, and economic performance? Evidence shows that in the advanced economies we live in a world that is more financialized than ever before as measured by importance of credit in the...
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This paper aims an empirical investigation of uncertainty in the Euro Zone as well as the US. For this purpose I conduct a factor analysis of uncertainty measures starting in 2001 until the end of 2011. I use survey-based data provided by the ECB and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia as...
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This paper develops a micro-founded general equilibrium model of the financial system composed of ultimate borrowers, ultimate lenders and financial intermediaries. The model is used to investigate the impact of uncertainty about the likelihood of governmental bailouts on leverage, interest...
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This paper investigates whether OECD countries are facing secular stagnation. Secular stagnation is defined as a situation when policy interest rates bounded at zero fail to stimulate demand sufficiently, due to low or negative neutral real interest rates and low inflation, and when ensuing...
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We implement a new survey of firms’ macroeconomic beliefs in New Zealand and document a number of novel stylized facts from this survey. Despite nearly twenty-five years under an inflation targeting regime, there is widespread dispersion in firms’ beliefs about both past and future...
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This contribution is an analysis and a comment of the Final Remarks of the Governor of the Bank of Italy and his directions of economic policy for the Italian economy. An economy that has a high unemployment and also supports a public debt that, despite the recent efforts of fiscal...
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fiscal policy is either unrestricted optimal or restricted but supportive of monetary policy. Full nominal price flexibility …, nominal prices set one period in advance and Calvo-style staggered overlapping price contracts with a variety of indexation … rules for constrained price setters are considered. For all price setting models, optimal monetary policy implements the …
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