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inflation rate. Evidence is also presented that suggests prices are being driven by increases in the money supply rather than by … changes in price setting behaviour. The paper additionally uses the estimated elasticity on the inflation variable to … dramatically after 2000, with inflation eventually exceeding the rate required to maximize this revenue stream. This is discussed …
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unemployment. Our model succeeds in replicating the empirical fact of a downward sloping Phillips curve for low inflation rates and … an upward sloping curve for high inflation rates. The reason is that low inflation rates make saving, as opposed to …, when inflation exceeds a certain threshold, money is too costly to hold, which results in a decrease in output and an …
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determine when and if a seigniorage-maximizing inflation rate occurred and this way provide a rational on the development of … that the seigniorage-maximizing rate of inflation of the Venezuelan economy occurred around the first quarter of 2016 at a … monthly inflation rate of approximately 13 percent. The implications of this are that when facing the choice of maximizing …
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A low-inflation mystery emerged during the 2010-2019 period as the Federal Reserve struggled to hit its two percent … inflation target. This paper presents theoretical results and empirical evidence that points to the safe asset shortage as a key … reason for the low inflation during this time. Specifically, the paper shows that the safe asset shortage was part of a …
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We develop a N-sector business cycle network model a la Long and Plosser (1983), featuring heterogenous money demand a la Bewley (1980) and Lucas (1980). Despite incomplete markets and a well-defined distribution of real money balances across heterogeneous households, the enriched N-sector...
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not separable in consumption and real balances, and trend inflation. An empirical study of U.S. data revealed that there … trend inflation. A further decline in the interest-elasticity of the demand for money was observed in the 1980s due to the … welfare cost of inflation that subsequently explains the rise in monetary neutrality observed in the data …
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separable in consumption and real balances, and trend inflation. An empirical study of U.S. data revealed that there was a … inflation. A further decline in the interest-elasticity of the demand for money was observed in the 1980s due to the changing … cost of inflation that subsequently explains the rise in monetary neutrality observed in the data …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between cash and tax evasion by studying the effects of two measures to fight evasion: accessing taxpayers’ banking data to check the consistency with reported income and discouraging the use of cash with thresholds on payments. We show that variation in...
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unemployment. Our model succeeds in replicating the empirical fact of a downward sloping Phillips curve for low inflation rates and … an upward sloping curve for high inflation rates. The reason is that low inflation rates make saving, as opposed to …, when inflation exceeds a certain threshold, money is too costly to hold, which results in a decrease in output and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869629
In this paper, different Divisia monetary aggregates for the euro area are constructed over the period from 1980 to 2000. Theoretically, one main difference of these aggregates is their reaction to exchange-rate variations. Empirically, the aggregates are compared with respect to three issues....
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