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The dominant role of the "new consensus models" in central banks' policy-making in the last two decades has triggered the reaction of post-Keynesian economists to examine alternatives to inflation-targeting monetary strategies and to Taylor-type interest rate rules. This paper develops a simple...
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The dominant role of the "new consensus models" in central banks’ policy-making in the last two decades has triggered the reaction of post-Keynesian economists to examine alternatives to inflation-targeting monetary strategies and to Taylor-type interest rate rules. This paper develops a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133342
analysing the disequilibrium dynamics of markets in which trade at non-market clearing prices would occur, was not that …
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This paper briefly discusses why a monetary policy framework that emphasises interest rates has become standard in recent years, and why so many economists have been persuaded simultaneously to downgrade the importance of monetary aggregates. Then it describes Michael Woodford's particular...
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falling prices really that bad? According to the Austrian School of Economics, this is not necessarily the case. A distinction … the first three kinds, falling prices are regarded as benign free market responses to changing circumstance, whether these … the Japanese economy of 1990-2001 is revisited. While consumer prices fell in 1995 and 1999-2001, if other prices are …
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dynamics; (2) eighty percent of firms set their prices every five quarters; and, (3) productivity changes explain marginal …
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With the release of Treasury papers from the 1970s under the 30-year rule we have a much more complete picture of the dispute in the 1970s between the Treasury and the Cambridge Economic Policy Group, especially given the role of three Cambridge economists -- Nicholas Kaldor, Wynne Godley and...
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spending to promote production. Increasing domestic supply will reduce the prices of goods and energy. Second, MMT advocates …
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spending to promote production. Increasing domestic supply will reduce the prices of goods and energy. Second, MMT advocates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433735
Samuelson and Solow in their 1960 paper in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings were among the first economists to engage with Phillips' famous unemployment/wage-inflation analysis, now referred to as the Phillips curve. They addressed the question of the relevance of Phillips's...
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