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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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expectations to information about the Federal Reserve's inflation target and a graph and summary of past inflation. On average …, respondents revise forecasts toward the 2% target with either information treatment, and both forecast uncertainty and … heterogeneity decline with the treatments, but remain substantial. Since the information in the treatments is publicly available …
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We develop a simple experimental setting to evaluate the role of the Taylor principle, which holds that the nominal interest rate has to respond more than one-for-one to fluctuations in the inflation rate. In our setting, the average inflation rate fluctuates around the inflation target if the...
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that, counter to theory, the Friedman rule is not welfare improving, performing no better than a constant money regime. By …
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currency holdings, and (3) information on the acceptance rate of the foreign currency among local agents. We extend the model … to the theory literature by characterizing a new circulation regime where agents use the foreign currency solely for … (around 40 percent in both cases). Information treatment does not have a significant impact relative to baseline …
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expansion vs. lump-sum monetary transfers. In theory, both processes are neutral and exert no real effect on allocation. In the …
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We conduct laboratory experiments with human subjects to test the rationale of adopting a band versus point inflation targeting regime. Within the standard New Keynesian model, we evaluate the macroeconomic performances of both regimes according to the strength of shocks affecting the economy....
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