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economy. Furthermore we introduce a velocity of money shock revisiting the Quantity Theory of Money within the open economy … paradigm of microeconomic theory and invoked since a tendency to think in nominal rather than real terms becomes evident in the … a productivity shock are increasing in the degree of money illusion and decreasing in the degree of openness of the …
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The paper presents the welfare cost of inflation in a banking time economy that models exchange credit through a bank production approach. The estimate of welfare cost uses fundamental parameters of utility and production technologies. It is compared to a cash-only economy, and a Lucas (2000)...
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The paper analyses the role of monetary policy for cyclical movements of investment and asset markets in East Asia and Europe based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework. It is shown how the gradual global decline of interest rates has triggered wandering overinvestment cycles in Japan,...
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open economy (‘home') in response to a large global demand shock that pushes both economies to the zero lower bound (ZLB …
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open economy ('home') in response to a large global demand shock that pushes both economies to the zero lower bound (ZLB …
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effects of corporate tax shocks are stronger than those of personal income tax shock; (2) spillovers are in most cases …
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To measure contagion empirically, we propose using a Bayesian time-varying coefficient model estimated with Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. The proposed measure works in the joint presence of heteroskedasticity and omitted variables and does not require knowledge of the timing of the crisis....
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To analyze the international transmission of business cycle fluctuations, we propose a new multilevel dynamic factor model with a block structure that (i) does not restrict the factors to being orthogonal and (ii) mixes data sampled at quarterly and monthly frequencies. By means of Monte Carlo...
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The extent and direction of causation between micro volatility and business cycles are debated. We examine, empirically and theoretically, the source and effects of fluctuations in the dispersion of producer-level sales and production over the business cycle. On the theoretical side, we study...
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We provide an empirical analysis of the effects of the Federal Reserve's asset holdings on MBS yields and mortgage rates. We argue that understanding the particulars of the U.S. mortgage markets, particularly the linkages between the secondary and primary mortgage markets, is important. We find...
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