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paper money, the system needs to avoid a fall in monetary inflows to aggregate supply. Price stability policies cannot … guarantee this aim when inflation rises. In contrast, full inflation-indexed economies can avoid or mitigate falls in aggregate …
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This paper presents a synthesis of capital theory and business cycle analysis. Capital is the neglected child of macroeconomics. Despite its obvious importance, capital has not received the attention that it deserves in modeling the business cycle. While many business cycle models pay no or very...
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regime during a deceleration in economic activity and with headline and core inflation remaining well below the FOMC's 2 … percent inflation target. Moreover, both short- and long-term inflation expectations were drifting lower. These developments …
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countries with high inflation, the output effects of monetary policies are significantly reduced. A lot of variation in the …
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countries with high inflation, the output effects of monetary policies are significantly reduced. A lot of variation in the …
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that the real burden of this debt cannot be reduced significantly by inflation because the bulk of it is held by government … agencies, is adjusted for inflation or is short-term. Inflation offers politicians low returns and high costs. The paper also … that bring the potential of a future massive and very inflationary increase in the money supply. While the Fed can prevent …
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side and inflation and real output on the other has mostly disappeared since the early 1980s. Using the direct estimate of … flows of U.S. dollars abroad we find that domestic money (currency corrected for the foreign holdings of dollars) contains … valuable information about future movements of U.S. inflation and real output. Statistical evidence suggests that the Friedman …
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inflation is inertial. Microeconomic data indicate that firms change prices frequently. We formulate and estimate a model which … resolves this apparent micro - macro conflict. Our model is consistent with post-war U.S. evidence on inflation inertia even …
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countries with high inflation, the output effects of monetary policies are significantly reduced. A lot of variation in the …
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We have studied the comparative performance of a number of interest rate spreads as predictors of the German inflation … three of the interest rate differentials also foreshadowed the long swings in the German inflation rate remarkably well with …
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