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materials, for both production as well as for inventories. The more detailed treatment of inventory holdings offers new insights …
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This article studies inventories and monetary policy by estimating VAR models. The complex roots detected in our … production and inventories follow damped oscillations (stable sine curves), implying that a boom is the seed of the following … inventories, while booms after positive supply shocks are short-lived as the initial accumulation of inventories suppresses …
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Ralph Hawtrey, a leading economist of the interwar period, published his first work in economics, Good and Bad Trade, in 1913. The book presents the key elements of the theoretical model Hawtrey developed and refined over the next quarter century. Though he was remarkably consistent in...
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We show diverse beliefs is an important propagation mechanism of fluctuations, money non neutrality and efficacy of monetary policy. Since expectations affect demand, our theory shows economic fluctuations are mostly driven by varying demand not supply shocks. Using a competitive model with...
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This paper takes a first step in analysing how a monetary union performs in the presence of labour market asymmetries. Differences in wage flexibility, market power and country sizes are allowed for in a setting with both country-specific and aggregate shocks. The implications of asymmetries for...
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We propose a monetary model in which the unemployed satisfy the official US definition of unemployment: they are people without jobs who are (i) currently making concrete efforts to find work and (ii) willing and able to work. In addition, our model has the property that people searching for...
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