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Cash use in most countries is falling slowly. On the margin, younger adults favor cash substitutes over cash. For older adults it is the reverse. Revealed preference tied to a changing population age structure seems to be the main influence on the demand for cash and why it is falling. Cash use...
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This paper proposes rules for the control of interbank rate volatility under different interest corridor systems when volatility stems from interbank market frictions. Friction-induced volatility will occur if there is heterogeneity in two dimensions (across banks and time) with respect to the...
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This paper analyses the welfare effects of microfinance and inflation in developing countries. Therefore, we introduce … microfinance institution induces peer monitoring, which in turn enables entrepreneurship. Our main result is that there exists an … inflation threshold beyond which entrepreneurship collapses. We show that inflation affects the impact of microfinance on social …
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Population growth rates have fallen considerably in most developed countries. An important question for monetary policy is whether this has led to a fall in the natural rate of interest. In representative agent models, the response of the natural rate to a fertility shock crucially depends on...
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This paper examines if taking into account changes in the number of producers, or equivalently changes in the product variety space over the business cycle, helps to understand and replicate international business cycle facts. To this end, we develop a two-country model in which the economy is...
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Following on from a paper by Yoshiharu Oritani, Public Governance of Central Banks: An Approach from New Institutional Economics. Public governance is an institutional framework whereby the general public governs a central bank by and through the legislative and executive bodies in a country....
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I show that the probability that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System staff's forecasts (the "Greenbooks'") overpredicted quarterly real gross domestic product (GDP) growth depends on both the forecast horizon and also whether the forecasted quarter was above or below trend real...
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