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postwar US macroeconomic data can be explained as the outcome of passive monetary policy, indeterminacy, and sunspot … windows and allowing the parameters to fall both in the determinacy and indeterminacy regions. The estimates reveal large … the sample. The results confirm that macroeconomic data in the early windows are better explained by indeterminacy, while …
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indeterminate. After opening the borders, the rigid wage country may export indeterminacy to the full employment country …, particularly if it is big enough. In contrast, when the full employment country is sufficiently big, local indeterminacy, and … fluctuations (associated with local indeterminacy and bifurcations) are possible with smaller externalities, whatever the relative …
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source of indeterminacy. -- Local home environmental externality ; human capital ; indeterminacy …
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We develop a monetary model with flexible supply of labor, cash in advance constraints and government spending financed by seignorage. This model has two regimes. One regime is conventional with two steady states. The other regime has a unique steady state which can be determinate or...
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indeterminate and stable sunspots are possible. We find that capital adjustment costs of any size preclude stable sunspots for every … size are considered, a necessary condition for the existence of stable sunspots is an upward- sloping labor demand curve in … the standard result that when we abstract from capital adjustment costs, stable sunspots occur in the two-sector model for …
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A common assumption in macroeconomics is that energy prices are determined in a world-wide, rather frictionless market. This no longer seems an adequate description for the situation that much of Europe currently faces. Rather, one reading is that shortages exist in the quantity of energy...
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In U.S. data 1981-2012, unsecured firm credit moves procyclically and tends to lead GDP, while secured firm credit is acyclical; similarly, shocks to unsecured firm credit explain a far larger fraction of output fluctuations than shocks to secured credit. In this paper we develop a tractable...
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multiplicity of equilibria and somewhat facilitate the emergence of indeterminacy and flip bifurcations, constituting therefore a … source of business cycles driven by self-fulfilling volatile expectations, i.e. sunspots. We also find that, in the presence …
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I develop and analyze a monetary model with liquid equity. Equity is a claim on the profits of firms acting as sellers in the search-and-matching market. Buyers in that market devote search to obtain matches with firms, and use the equity to relax a liquidity constraint. The dual nature of...
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