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Summary In a framework of a monetary asset pricing model with production the effects of monetary and fiscal policy shocks are investigated. The model is kept simple enough to generate explicit formulae for the equilibrium price functions. With money yielding liquidity services in the exchange...
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Abstract The conduct of monetary policy during the 1970s was greatly complicated by systematic real-time misperceptions of the state of economic activity as measured by the output gap. Employing real-time data and using the Taylor rule as an analytical framework, I explore the implications of...
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Many researchers have found that the lagged interest rate enters estimated monetary policy rules with overwhelming significance, suggesting that policy adjusts gradually to changes in economic conditions. However, Rudebusch (2002) argues that the lagged interest rate is not a fundamental...
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Purpose – This study is motivated by the view that Democrats are concerned with reducing unemployment in the short‐run, while Republicans are concerned with keeping inflation low to promote economic stability and growth. The purpose of this paper is to ask whether the Federal Reserve...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between human capital depreciation and education level, with an emphasis on potential differences between general and specific education. Design/methodology/approach – A nonlinear wage equation, based on Arrazola and de Hevia's...
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Abstract This paper starts from the observation that parameter instability and model uncertainty are relevant problems for the analysis of monetary policy in small macroeconomic models. We propose to deal with these two problems by implementing a novel "thick recursive modelling" approach. At...
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The federal funds rate is featured by frequent, small changes in the same direction and infrequent reversals. How to replicate the observed smooth behavior of the federal funds rate with a small scale macroeconomic model? This paper compares the descriptive performance of an empirical fully...
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Souveränität in geldpolitischen Fragen an die Europäische Zentralbank ab. Die Geldpolitik scheidet somit als Instrument der … Rezession) zukommt, so kann die Vereinheitlichung der Geldpolitik zu negativen Auswirkungen auf die konjunkturelle Entwicklung … Geldpolitik auf die Entwicklung der kurzfristigen Zinssätze analysiert, um schließlich mittels einer VAR-Analyse Aufschluß über …
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Summary This paper investigates the borrowing behavior of 2,900 French and 1,300 German firms over the 1987-95 period. Both samples based on data sets of the Banque de France and the Deutsche Bundesbank not only include large but also small and medium-sized enterprises. Applying GMM techniques,...
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in den EWU Mitgliedsländern für die einheitliche Geldpolitik. Zunächst wird im Rahmen eines Modells illustriert, welche … grundsätzliche Bedeutung asymmetrischen makroökonomischen Strukturen bei der Durchführung der gemeinsamen Geldpolitik zukommt. Im …
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