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-implied money market rate is positively correlated with the stance of monetary policy, offering a new perspective on this systematic …
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This article uses multi-period ex ante anticipations of money supply growth to estimate the parameters of a model …, suggested by Stanley Fischer, in which money affects real variables only through multi-period errors in anticipations. This … model is tested against an alternative, first evaluated empirically by Robert Barro, in which money affects real variables …
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A small, structural model of the monetary business cycle implies that real money balances enter into a correctly … implies that empirical measures of real balances must be adjusted for shifts in money demand to accurately isolate and … quantify the dynamic effects of money on output and inflation. Maximum likelihood estimates of the model's parameters take both …
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This paper studies the joint business cycle dynamics of in ation, money growth, nominal and real interest rates and the … velocity of money. I extend and estimate a standard cash and credit monetary model by adding idiosyncratic preference shocks to …
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substantial extent by real variables, such as the terms of trade and oil prices, and nominal variables, such as the money supply …
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It has been shown that under perfect competition and a Cobb-Douglas production function, a basic real business cycle model may exhibit indeterminacy and sunspot fluctuations when income tax rates are determined by a balanced-budget rule. This paper introduces in an otherwise standard real...
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The economic literature started to recognize the heterogeneity characterizing the nature of different technologies, introducing the concept of General Purpose Technologies. In this paper, we offer a new view of General Purpose Technologies, building on the historical as well as on the recent...
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Like other macroeconomic variables, residential investment has become much less volatile since the mid-1980s (recent experience notwithstanding.) This paper explores the role of structural change in this decline. Since the the early 1980s there have been many changes in the underlying structure...
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Existing results on the contribution of terms of trade and world interest rate shocks to output fluctuations in small open economies range from less than 10% to almost 90%. We argue that an identification problems lies at the heart of these vastly different results. In this paper, we overcome...
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This paper studies the long-run relationship between consumption, asset wealth and income - the consumption-wealth ratio - in Germany, based on data from 1980 to 2003. Earlier papers for the Anglo-Saxon economies have documented that departures of these three variables from their common trend...
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