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Monetarism is that solid microfoundations are critical for understanding monetary issues. We survey recent papers on monetary … theory, showing how they build on common foundations. We then lay out a tractable benchmark version of the model that allows … inflation, the relationship between money and capital accumulation, and the Phillips curve. We also extend the benchmark model …
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This essay articulates the principles and practices of New Monetarism, our label for a recent body of work on money … Monetarism has something in common with Old Monetarism, but there are also important differences; it has little in common with …, we build a benchmark New Monetarist model, and use it to study several issues, including the cost of inflation, liquidity …
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approach to economic theorising. -- Friedman ; macroeconomics ; Keynes ; Keynesianism. monetarism ; money ; inflation ; cycle … development of today's mainstream, stochastic, but essentially Walrasian, macroeconomic theory, rooted in his explicit deployment … of econometric theory in the analysis of forward-looking maximising behaviour in 1957, and in his later work on the …
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We develop a New Monetarist model in continuous time where agents trade continuously in competitive markets and infrequently in pairwise meetings. Agents can produce and consume both in flows over time intervals and in discrete quantities at points in time. We detail the methodology to solve...
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This paper studies the welfare costs and the redistributive effects of inflation in the presence of idiosyncratic … money demand and the distribution of money holdings across households, and study the effects of inflation under the implied … inflation are on average 40% smaller compared to a complete markets, representative agent economy, and that inflation induces …
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The present paper explores the connection between inflation and unemployment in different models with fair wages both … function, more inflation lowers the unemployment rate, though to a declining extent. This is because firms respond to inflation … inflation on effort. A stronger effect of nflation on unemployment is also produced under varying as opposed to fixed capital …
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reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the …
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of money, it causes inflation, in the absence of monetary intervention. If the monetary authority attempts to restore pre … credit cards, there is even more inflation, and less efficiency gains. The monetary authority might then have to accept less … than pre-credit card efficiency in order to restore pre-credit card price levels, or else it will have to accept inflation …
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We argue that long-run inflation has nonlinear and state-dependent effects on unemployment, output, and welfare. Using … anticipated inflation and unemployment. Second, there is also a positive correlation between anticipated inflation and … unemployment volatility. Third, the long-run inflation-unemployment relationship is not only positive, but also stronger when …
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