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Between 2002 and 2006, the Federal Reserve set interest rates significantly below the rates suggested by well-known monetary policy rules. There is a growing body of research suggesting that this helped fuel an excess of liquidity in the U.S. that contributed to the 2008 worldwide financial...
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We study a flexible price IS/LM economy in which the money supply and interest rate play the role of monetary policy instruments. If the central bank sets the nominal interest rate, the ambiguity in the price level is manifested. However, the equilibrium price level is permissible, if the...
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auf die Wohlfahrt und die optimale Geldpolitik. Betrachtet werden zwei Möglichkeiten, wie die Wettbewerbsintensität am … die Geldpolitik effektiver sein, wenn die Länder größere Asymmetrien aufweisen. Diese Ergebnisse legen es nahe, dass die … intensiver ist. Die optimale Geldpolitik der Zentralbank der Währungsunion wird ermittelt und mit einer einfachen Taylor …
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One popular view on the current strength of the US dollar is that the higher growth in the US compared to Europe has stimulated foreigners to buy American assets, thereby driving up the exchange rate. In this paper a modified portfolio balance model is presented, in which it is shown that the...
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In this paper, the monetary transmission mechanism within the European Monetary Union is investigated. The impulse response functions and forecast error variance decompositions of a structural vector error correction model (SVECM) are compared with those of a New Keynesian theoretical model. The...
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One popular view on the current strength of the US dollar is that the higher growth in the US compared to Europe has stimulated foreigners to buy American assets, thereby driving up the exchange rate. In this paper a modified portfolio balance model is presented, in which it is shown that the...
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New-Keynesian models are characterized by the presence of expectations as explanatory variables. To use these models for policy evaluation, the econometrician must estimate the parameters of expectation terms. Standard estimation methods have several drawbacks, including possible lack of...
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Financial stability, with an emphasis on the relevance of asset prices stability to the stability of the overall economy, has become the sub ject of wide discussion among monetary authorities. Closely related to these issues are the concerns of central bankers with a bubble economy and its...
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