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The literature on fiscal federalism has amply discussed both the potential efficiency and welfare gains from decentralization and the potential trade-offs between decentralization and income redistribution. By contrast, it has generally put less emphasis on the effects of decentralization on...
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The paper examines intergovernmental fiscal relations in the Caribbean from the perspective of general principles of fiscal federalism and international practice, and considers the effects of intergovernmental design on macroeconomic management
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Monetary policy has three tenets: a stable money demand function, a well specified velocity of money and a reliable money creation process. The first tenet determines real money on the demand side of the market and the third fixes nominal money on the supply side. The article finds that these...
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We consider a medium-scale New-Keynesian model which combines features that have been shown to explain fairly well postwar U.S. business cycles. Our main result demonstrates that the determinacy properties of forward-looking interest rate rules resemble, at least qualitatively, the corresponding...
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capital. In particular, we explore this issue in a setting where individuals face idiosyncratic risk. Incomplete information … models which focus on the transmission of monetary policy to the demand for capital goods, we incorporate a separate capital … monetary growth model, monetary policy plays an important role in investment activity through the relative price of capital …
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real investment and capital prices to unanticipated monetary policy. The response functions derive from a restricted large …
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This paper constructs a two-country DSGE model to study the nature of the recent financial crisis and its effects that spread immediately throughout the world owing to the globalization of banking. In the model, financial intermediaries (FIs) enter into chained credit contracts at home and...
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