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We introduce endogenous growth in an otherwise standard NK model with staggered prices and wages. Some results follow: (i) monetary volatility negatively affects long-run growth; (ii) the relation between nominal volatility and growth depends on the persistence of the nominal shocks and on the...
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We incorporate quantile regressions into a structural vector autoregression model to empirically assess how monetary and fiscal policy influence risks around future GDP growth. Using a panel of six developed countries, we find that both policy instruments affect the location of the distribution...
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We theoretically explore long-run stagnation at the zero lower bound in a representative agent framework. We analytically compare expectations-driven stagnation to a secular stagnation episode and find contrasting policy implications for changes in government spending, supply shocks and...
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unemployment. Moreover, the wage sweep-ups caused by nominal rigidity are strongly correlated with unemployment suggesting that … downward rigidity of nominal wages indeed contributes to unemployment …
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We theoretically explore long-run stagnation at the zero lower bound in a representative agent framework. We analytically compare expectations-driven stagnation to a secular stagnation episode and find contrasting policy implications for changes in government spending, supply shocks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101362
Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained … (persistent nonfrictional unemployment, unfair inequalities, and financial instability), their policy proposals do not lead to a …
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business cycle features for each country. Third, the introduction of different oil shock specifications is never rejected …. Fourth, positive oil price changes, net oil price increases and oil price volatility are the oil shock definitions which …
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policy shocks (money supply-interest rate induced) on economic growth in Ghana. We realized that, a shock on interest rate … paradoxical effect of a negative interest rate on total money supply. We also showed that a positive output shock has the same … effect on consumption, investment, prices and wages as in the case of interest rate shock …
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The recovery from the Global Financial Crisis was characterized by sluggish output growth and by inflation remaining … persistently below the inflation targets of central banks in many advanced economies despite an unprecedented monetary expansion …
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The recovery from the Global Financial Crisis was characterized by sluggish output growth and by inflation remaining … persistently below the inflation targets of central banks in many advanced economies despite an unprecedented monetary expansion …
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