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choose a path for the inflation rate that ends with a non-zero value. Such a property is relevant in a wide range of … youth structure. In this setting, profit flows are discounted more heavily than utility flows and the optimal inflation … long-run inflation rate in models with firm entry and exit and in environments with search and matching frictions in the …
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This paper exploits a natural experiment in India – Inflation Targeting to study how changes in inflation expectations … influence households’ consumption, savings, and investments in risky assets. Using regional heterogeneity in inflation … expectations by city and city-age-gender bins due to the Inflation Targeting policy, we provide evidence of portfolio rebalancing …
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This short note is to show that the strong non-superneutrality of monetary policy in Brunnermeier and Sannikov (2016) does not hold if taking into account the pecuniary externality of capital. Higher money growth rate leads to a higher level of capital but not higher growth rate of the economy...
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downward spiral after an unexpected arrival of a financial market illiquidity shock. In order to uncover this transmission …
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We analyze optimal monetary policy and its implications for asset prices, when aggregate demand has inertia and responds to asset prices with a lag. If there is a negative output gap, the central bank optimally overshoots aggregate asset prices (asset prices are initially pushed above their...
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Currently, many monetary and fiscal policy measures are aimed at preventing the financial market meltdown that started in the US subprime sector and has spread worldwide as a great recession. Although some slow recovery appears to be on the horizon, it is worthwhile exploring the fragility and...
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In the last months, the world's economies were confronted with the largest economic recession since the Great Depression. The occurrence of a worldwide financial market meltdown as a consequence originally stemming from of the crisis in the US subprime housing sector was only prevented by...
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We study the role of firm heterogeneity in affecting business cycle dynamics and optimal stabilization policy. Firms differ in their degree of cyclicality, and hence, exposure to aggregate risk, leading to firm-specific risk premia that influence resource allocations. The heterogeneous firm...
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Autonomous demand shock affects consumption spending. Variation in consumption spending contributes to the volatility …
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