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I characterize optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a stochastic New Keynesian model when nominal interest rates may occasionally hit the zero lower bound. The benevolent policymaker controls the short-term nominal interest rate and the level of government spending. Under discretionary policy,...
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DSGE model and estimate it with US data. Our findings suggest that FG during the Great Recession may have partly reflected …
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Many explanations for the decline in real interest rates over the last 30 years point to the role that population aging or rising income inequality plays in increasing the long-run aggregate demand for assets. Notwithstanding the importance of such factors, the starting point of this paper is to...
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standard medium scale DSGE model calibrated to the US. Optimal passive monetary policy with debt concerns is ineffective in …
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Currently, many monetary and fiscal policy measures are aimed at preventing the financial market meltdown that started in the US subprime sector and has spread worldwide as a great recession. Although some slow recovery appears to be on the horizon, it is worthwhile exploring the fragility and...
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In the last months, the world's economies were confronted with the largest economic recession since the Great Depression. The occurrence of a worldwide financial market meltdown as a consequence originally stemming from of the crisis in the US subprime housing sector was only prevented by...
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Structural DSGE models are used for analyzing both policy and the sources of business cycles. Conclusions based on full … based on narrative shocks. This paper asks whether both approaches agree. Specifically, I use narrative data in a DSGE …-SVAR that partially identify policy shocks in the VAR and assess the fit of the DSGE model relative to this narrative benchmark …
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This paper develops an estimated New Keynesian model of a commodity-exporting economy for an integrated policy framework, integrating the full range of policies used in practice and featuring a range of nominal and real rigidities, macro-financial linkages, and transmission channels of external...
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In a New Keynesian DSGE model with non-Ricardian consumers, we show that automatic stabilization according to a …
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This paper studies the interdependence between fiscal and monetary policy in a DSGE model with sticky prices and non …
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