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consumption function and the demand for money, not to mention monetary history, which helped to undermine the post World War 2 … case for a money growth rule, and the expectations augmented Phillips curve are then taken up, followed by a discussion of …
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This paper examines Robert E. Lucas's views on the relationship of macroeconomics to real world economic phenomena, and on Keynes's place in its history, suggesting that these stem from a particular and debatable understanding of how the subdiscipline has evolved. It considers some implications...
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Irving Fisher's encounter with the Quantity theory of Money began in the 1890s, during the debate about bimetallism …, and reached its high point in 1911 with the publication of The Purchasing Power of Money. His most important refinement of …
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. As such, it can be described as the first true central bank. The debut of central bank money did not result from any …
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This paper presents a monetary-theoretic model to study the implications of networks' collection of personal identifying data and data security on each other's incidence and costs of identity theft. To facilitate trade, agents join clubs (networks) that compile and secure data. Too much data...
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A controversial aspect of payment cards has been the 'no-surcharge rule.' This rule, which is part of the contract between the card provider and a merchant, states that the merchant cannot charge a customer who pays by card more than a customer who pays by cash. In this paper we consider the...
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This paper assesses the performance of monetary indicators in predicting euro area HICP inflation out-of-sample over the period since the start of EMU considering a wide range of forecasting models, including standard bivariate forecasting models, factor models, simple combination forecasts as...
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The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … criticism for this decision. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard … decades. In this paper, we develop a justification for including money in the interest rate rule by allowing for imperfect …
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modified to account for observed money growth and inflation trends, and that monetary trends may serve as a useful cross … persistent errors in monetary policy and sustained trends in money growth and inflation. If interest rate prescriptions derived … from Keynesian-style models are augmented with a cross-check against money-based estimates of trend inflation, inflation …
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whether money growth Granger-causes output growth in the United States. We find surprisingly strong evidence for a money … Great moderation, the Granger-causal role of money appears to have vanished completely. …
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