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coordination hurdles. In his analysis Joe is in many respects a "closet evolutionist" who in fact highlighted and explored many … properties e.g. coordination failures and the possibility of path-dependent multiplicity of growth trajectories which are far and … major themes, namely, the consequences of learning and dynamic increasing returns, and "Keynesian" coordination failures …
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This paper examines the asset pricing implications of nominal rigidities. Firms that adjust their product prices infrequently earn a return premium of 4% per year. Merging unique product-price data at the firm level with stock returns, I document that the premium for sticky-price firms is a...
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This paper derives explicitly an equity pricing relationship in a New Keynesian model. This relationship is used to study the equity pricing implications of New Keynesian models. I find that New Keynesian models suffer from the same asset pricing shortcomings as more traditional RBC versions....
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In this paper I will follow Hyman Minsky in arguing that the postwar period has seen a slow transformation of the economy from a structure that could be characterized as "robust" to one that is "fragile". While many economists and policymakers have argued that "no one saw it coming", Minsky and...
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In this paper I will follow Hyman Minsky in arguing that the postwar period has seen a slow transformation of the economy from a structure that could be characterized as "robust" to one that is "fragile." While many economists and policymakers have argued that "no one saw it coming," Minsky and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128523
We should learn from Keynes to focus on the macroproblems of our day. Today's problem is the financial crisis and the resulting great recession. Neither the standard Keynesian policies of decades past nor the monetary policy doctrine of recent years provides useful solutions. Dynamic stochastic...
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We revisit the role of long-term nominal corporate debt for the transmission of inflation shocks in the general equilibrium model of Gomes, Jermann, and Schmid (2016). We show that inaccuracies in the model solution and calibration strategy lead GJS to a model equilibrium in which nominal...
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Post-Keynesians have questioned the relevance of behavioral economics on methodological grounds, citing the predominant focus of the behavioral literature on possible deviations of individual behavior from extreme standards of perfect optimization. The very limited influence of behavioral...
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producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the …
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market regularities and (ii) macroeconomic dynamics (long-term rates of growth, GDP fluctuations, unemployment rates … relations are conducive to coordination successes with higher and smoother growth …
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