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Private pensions, retirement wealth and lifetime earnings
MacGee, James; Zhou, Jie - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of private pensions on the retirement wealth distribution. The model incorporates stochastic private pension coverage into a lifecycle model with stochastic earnings. The predictions of the calibrated model are compared to the distribution of retirement net...
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Can structural small open economy models account for the influence of foreign disturbances?
Justiniano, Alejandro; Preston, Bruce - 2009
This paper demonstrates that an estimated, structural, small open-economy model of the Canadian economy cannot account for the substantial influence of foreign-sourced disturbances identified in numerous reduced-form studies. The benchmark model assumes uncorrelated shocks across countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292184
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Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements? A structural investigation
Lubik, Thomas A.; Schorfheide, Frank - 2003
We estimate a small-scale, structural general equilibrium model of a small open economy using Bayesian methods. Our main focus is the conduct of monetary policy in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K., as measured by nominal interest rate rules. We consider generic Taylor-type rules,...
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Central Bank accountability and transparency: theory and some evidence
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Hoeberichts, Marco - 2000
The first part of this paper outlines the concept of democratic accountability of central banks, and compares the legal accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System). In the second part, we present a theory...
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Monetary policy transparency, public commentary, and market perceptions about monetary policy in Canada
Siklos, Pierre L. - 2000
Die Einführung von Inflationszielen in Kanada im Jahr 1991 verdeutlichte angeblich das Ziel der Geldpolitik, nämlich … können, inwieweit es der Bank von Kanada gelingt, die Inflation stabil auf niedrigem Niveau zu halten. Deshalb liegt die … Frage nahe, ob tatsächlich - wie der Präsident der Zentralbank kürzlich feststellte - ' ... die Erfolge der Bank von Kanada …
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International evidence on sticky consumption growth
Carroll, Christopher D.; Slacalek, Jirka; Sommer, Martin - 2008
We estimate the degree of 'stickiness' in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a stickiness...
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Closing the gap? A comparison of approaches to encourage early greenhouse gas emission reductions
Rolfe, Chris; Michaelowa, Axel; Dutschke, Michael - 1999
Das Kyoto-Protokoll zur UN-Klimarahmenkonvention setzt verbindliche Treibhausgasemissionsziele für Industrieländer, die allerdings erst im Zeitraum 2008-2012 gelten. Da für die Zeit bis 2008 mit einem erheblichen Emissionsanstieg zu rechnen ist, wird über Ansätze nachgedacht, schon vorher...
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Soziales Marktmodell Europa versus liberales Marktmodell Amerika
Gries, Thomas - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 81 (2001) 8, pp. 462-469
In der Diskussion über notwendige Reformen der Volkswirtschaften werden in der Bundesrepublik und anderen europäischen Ländern die institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen der Vereinigten Staaten zur Nachahmung empfohlen. Gibt es ein marktwirtschaftlich orientiertes Wirtschaftssystem, dessen...
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Exchange rate dynamics, expectations, and monetary policy
Chen, Qianying - 2011
This paper re-investigates the implications of monetary policy rules on changes in exchange rate, in a risk-adjusted, uncovered interest parity model with unrestricted parameters, emphasizing the importance of modeling market expectations of monetary policy. I use consensus forecasts as a proxy...
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The Stabilizing Properties of Floating Exchange Rates: Some International Evidence
Bergvall, Anders - 2002
This paper analyzes the stabilizing properties of alternative monetary policy regimes. In practice there is a choice between two broad types of monetary policy regimes: a fixed exchange rate regime or a floating exchange rate regime. In this paper I compare exchange rate targeting with different...
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