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This survey gives insight into the ongoing research in financial frictions modeling. The recent financial turmoil has fueled interest in operationalizing financial frictions concepts. The rapid growth of the literature on financial frictions motivates this review. The empirical facts that...
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investment long-run average growth rate but also directly modify the behavior of monetary policy. …
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This paper develops a New-Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (NKDSGE) model for forecasting the growth rate of output, inflation, and the nominal short-term interest rate (91 days Treasury Bill rate) for the South African economy. The model is estimated via maximum likelihood...
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In order to quantitatively assess the potential effects from the ongoing transformation of the fiscal framework of the European Union, we evaluate the economic and public finance stabilization properties of two benchmark fiscal rules using a New Keynesian small open economy model. If these...
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shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles. …
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We study the impact of different central bank communication practices on the trading behavior and profitability of fast and slow traders in the foreign exchange market. We focus, in particular, on how the Bank of Japan's practice of introducing some randomness to the time at which it releases...
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effects in investment financing, credit and house price booms and a role for bank capital. A final exercise illustrates how …
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shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles …
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We argue that secular change in both the production and composition of investment goods has weakened private investment … the production of investment goods amplify the response of consumption to monetary policy shocks by varying labor income … investment goods production has declined, (ii) the import share of investment goods has risen, and (iii) the composition of …
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real interest rates are driven by variations in desired saving and investment. But based on data stretching back to 1870 … for 19 countries, our systematic analysis casts doubt on this view. The link between real interest rates and saving-investment … countries that dominate global monetary and financial conditions rather than common movements in global saving and investment …
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