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. We report that the different approach to modeling money - reduced-form vs. explicit role - neither induces theoretical …. To illustrate, when cash prices are equally distorted in both models equally large welfare costs of inflation are … mechanism that governs cash transactions, not the explicit microfoundation of money. …
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We study the behavioral underpinnings of adopting cash versus electronic payments in retail transactions. A novel theoretical and experimental framework is developed to primarily assess the impact of sellers’ service fees and buyers’ rewards from using electronic payments. Buyers and sellers...
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We study the behavioral underpinnings of adopting cash versus electronic payments in retail transactions. A novel theoretical and experimental framework is developed to primarily assess the impact of sellers' service fees and buyers' rewards from using electronic payments. Buyers and sellers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730082
This paper applies ARDL and Nonlinear ARDL models to long-term inflation targeting policy mechanisms in the United … States and China to assess the impact of oil price dynamics and asymmetries on inflation expectations in the two countries … changes on inflation expectations, and further provide a theoretical basis for the empirical results. We use data from 2010 to …
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inflation, the relationship between money and capital accumulation, and the Phillips curve. We also extend the benchmark model … body of recent work on money, banking, payments systems, asset markets, and related topics. A key principle in New … Monetarism is that solid microfoundations are critical for understanding monetary issues. We survey recent papers on monetary …
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The theory of money typically ignores the fact that the mode of market interaction arises endogenously, and simply … understanding the conditions that lend themselves to the development of money as a mode of exchange. To study this, we develop a … theory of money such that the market structure is endogenized. …
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This paper shows that the interaction between money growth and staggered nominal contracts gives rise to a long …-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …
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countries. Second, inflation acts as a regressive tax when a nominal asset other than money is held. Third, the magnitude of the …I calibrate the microfounded model in Boel and Camera (2009) to quantify the redistributive effects of inflation for a … financial assets. Second, I account for structural breaks when estimating money demand. I find that several results hold for the …
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This note argues that the solutions to the euro-area crisis proposed by the EU governing institutions in cooperation with the IMF, based on further austerity and wage cuts, will worsen the crisis. They are unlikely to reduce both sovereign and external debt ratios of countries experiencing these...
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This article shows that the "risk premium" shock in Smets and Wouters (2007) can be interpreted as a structural shock to the demand for safe and liquid assets such as short-term US Treasury securities. Several implications of this interpretation are discussed.
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