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Optimal conservatism and collective monetary policymaking under uncertainty

Hefeker, Carsten; Zimmer, Blandine - 2014

We study how the optimal degree of conservatism relates to decision-making procedures in a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). In our framework, central bank conservatism is required to attenuate the volatility of monetary decisions generated by the presence of uncertainty about the committee...

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Regulation of Telecom : What Works & Why? Lessons of Independent Central Banks

Stern, Jon; Trillas, Francesc - 2013

Oftel has now been the regulatory agency for UK telecommunications for over 15 years. The FCC has regulated US telecoms … million with a growth in mobile subscribers from zero to 24 million. Over the same period, telecommunications revenue as a … framework, particularly for investment. In the telecommunications case, it is the establishment of effective institutions to …

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The Price of Stability : Volatility and the Rise in Markups during the Great Moderation

Colla Rizzi, Giovanni; Lucke, Friedrich; Morzenti, Giovanni - 2023

During the Great Moderation, macroeconomic volatility declined while firm markups increased. We document a causal relationship between volatility and markups due to tacit collusion. We exploit the legalisation of interstate banking as an exogenous decrease in volatility. Using an instrumental...

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Product Market Competition and the Industry Price-Cost Markup Fluctuations : Role of Energy Price and Monetary Changes

Ghosal, Vivek - 2000

Quantifying differences in markup fluctuations between relatively competitive and non-competitive industries has received increasing attention in industrial organization and macroeconomics. We examine markup fluctuations in response to energy price and monetary changes, and the role played by...

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Monetary policy, firm exit and productivity

Hartwig, Benny; Lieberknecht, Philipp - 2020

We analyze the influence of monetary policy on firms’ extensive margin and productivity. Our empirical evidence for the U.S. based on a macro-financial SVAR suggests that expansionary monetary policy shocks stimulate corporate profits, reduce firm exit and increase firm entry. In the medium...

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Discreteness and Nominal Rigidity : Do Supermarket Prices Move Too Much?

Eden, Benjamin - 2010

We assess the ability of the cross sectional price distribution to react to shocks from the point of view of a Prescott “hotels” type model, using a sample of 435 products in 75 stores over 121 weeks. We argue that the cross sectional distribution is flexible in spite of the price repetition...

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Long-term Business Relationships, Bargaining and Monetary Policy

Abbritti, Mirko; Aguilera-Bravo, Asier; Trani, Tommaso - 2021

We analyze a monetary economy where firms trading intermediate inputs engage in long-term business-to-business (B2B) relationships. We focus on features such as search for business partners, price negotiation and productivity levels that can make it convenient to separate a relationship. These...

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On the importance of sales for aggregate price flexibility

Kryvtsov, Oleksiy; Vincent, Nicolas - 2014

Macroeconomists have traditionally ignored the behavior of temporary price markdowns ("sales") by retailers. Although sales are common in the micro price data, they are assumed to be unrelated to macroeconomic phenomena and generally filtered out. We challenge this view. First, using the 1996 -...

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Firm heterogeneity, capital misallocation and optimal monetary policy

González, Beatriz; Nuño, Galo; Thaler, Dominik; … - 2021

We analyze monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous firms and financial frictions. Firms differ in their productivity and net worth and face collateral constraints that cause capital misallocation. TFP endogenously depends on the time-varying distribution of firms. Although a...

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Multi-product pricing : theory and evidence from large retailers in Israel

Bonomo, Marco Antonio; Carvalho, Carlos Viana de; … - 2020 - Last updated: April 7, 2020

well suited to analyze price dynamics in the economy with multiproduct firms. To guide new theory, we study a unique …

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