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A paradox in international trade is that multilateral trade liberalisation has resulted in increases in both the volume of world trade and the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI). This note presents a Cournot duopoly model with two regions, each consisting of two countries, and with an...
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sectors, this paper investigates the performance of inflation targeting and price-level targeting when the zero lower bound on … hitting the lower bound is lower under price-level targeting than inflation targeting, with 'lower bound episodes' being less … frequent and lasting for shorter periods of time. Second, the volatilities of key macroeconomic variables are lower under price …
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This paper investigates the long-term impact of price-level targeting on social welfare in an overlapping generations … of an optimal commitment Ramsey policy. Due to the absence of base-level drift under price-level targeting, long … from price- level targeting is equivalent to a permanent increase in aggregate consumption of only 0.01 per cent, but this …
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The paper presents a theory of the industrial transformation amongst sectors using endogenous growth theory. Allowing … time from agriculture to manufacturing and to services. Abstracting from international trade theory, sectors intensive in …
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In the context of an autoregressive panel data model with fixed effect, we examine the relationship between consistent parameter estimation and consistent model selection. Consistency in parameter estimation is achieved by using the tansformation of the fixed effect proposed by Lancaster (2002)....
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sellers offer sizeable price cuts and sell faster. If the number of distressed sales rises then even relaxed sellers are …
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this captures the fact that price-spells are generated by firms' price-setting behavior. Since the distribution of …-biased sampling. Modelling the price-spell durations in this way enables us to see how Taylor, Calvo and their generalizations relate … to each other, and enable us to compare price-setting behavior for a given distribution of durations. We also show how …
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The seminal Barro (2006) closed-economy model of the equity risk premium in the presence of extreme events (disasters) allowed for leverage in the form of risky corporate debt which defaulted only in states when the Government defaulted on its debt. The probability of default was therefore...
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We show a simple way to introduce monopolistic competition in a general equilibrium model where prices are fully .exible, the velocity of money is variable and cash-in-advance (CIA) constraints occasionally bind.We establish the conditions under which money has real effects and demonstrate that...
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price of capital (Tobin's q) and growth. A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of endogenous growth is developed to …
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