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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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hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables. …
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A growing body of empirical evidence shows that there exists a long-run positive tradeoff between inflation and real … between inflation and output. …
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The paper extends the efficiency wages Phillips curve from a closed economy context to an open economy one with both commodity trade and capital mobility. Opening the trade account does not alter the slope of the Phillips curve, but it makes its position a function of the change of foreign and...
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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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We consider the effect of money illusion - defined referring to Stevens' ratio estimation function - on the long-run Phillips curve in an otherwise standard New Keynesian model of sticky wages. We show that if households under-perceive real economic variables, negative money...
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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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We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of … establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … United States economy and the long-run equilibrium properties are compared at low and high inflation. We find that, when the …
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If firms borrow working capital to finance production, then nominal interest rates have a direct influence on inflation … empirical importance in explaining inflation dynamics in the US and in the euro area. …
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A growing body of empirical evidence shows that there exists a long-run positive tradeoff between inflation and real … between inflation and output. …
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