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deflator inflation, real GDP growth, and the rate of growth of M2. We identify 4 shocks-monetary policy, demand non …, with (e.g.) significant increases in the long-run coefficients on inflation and money growth around the time of the Volcker … macroeconomic environment of the last two decades. First, the Great Inflation was due, to a dominant extent, to large demand non …
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This work nests the Agent-Based macroeconomic perspective into the earlier history of macroeconomics. We discuss how the discipline in the 70's took a perverse path relying on models grounded on fictitious rational representative agent in order to try to pathetically circumvent aggregation and...
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Binding lower bounds on interest rates and large government deficits limit the scope of fiscal and monetary policies to stimulate households' spending through financial intermediaries and firms. Policymakers have thus been implementing unconventional policies that aim to increase households'...
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In this article, we studied the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the observed corporate births for the Romanian economy through the Autoregressive Distributed Lags Model (ADL). We performed a time series analysis that uses monthly data for the period January 2008 – December 2013...
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The current consensus in macroeconomics, or New Neoclassical Synthesis (NNS), is based on dynamically stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) modelling with a RBC core to which nominal rigidities are added by way of imperfect competition. The strategy is to minimize the frictions that are required...
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R. G. Hawtrey, like his younger contemporary J. M. Keynes, was a Cambridge graduate in mathematics, an Apostle, deeply influenced by the Cambridge philosopher G. E. Moore, attached, if only peripherally, to the Bloomsbury group, and largely an autodidact in economics. Both entered the British...
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. Key to our estimation strategy is the use of survey - based expectations for inflation and output. We identify … period. Output shocks shift to the low volatility regime around 1985 whereas inflation shocks do so only around 1990 …, suggesting active monetary policy may have played role in anchoring inflation expectations. Shocks and policy regimes jointly …
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We construct an optimizing-agent model of a closed economy which is simple enough that we can use it to make exact utility calculations. There is a stabilization problem because there are one-period nominal contracts for wages, or prices, or both and shocks that are unknown at the time when...
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stabilizes inflation and output. The estimation of this model, which comprises forward-looking versions of the IS and the … this simple model matches the dynamic properties of the output gap, inflation and the interest rate in EMU quite accurately …. We also perform several exercises that show the response of output, inflation and interest rates to different kinds of …
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In macroeconomic models, it is standard practice to assume that imperfectly competitive firms either set a price in advance and supply at the market-clearing quantity (price-setting) or set a quantity in advance and sell at the market-clearing price (quantity-setting). However, under imperfect...
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