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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 recent years, Fund staff has prepared cross-country analyses of macroeconomic vulnerabilities in low-income countries, focusing on the risk of sharp declines in economic growth and of debt distress. We discuss routes to broadening this focus by adding several macroeconomic and macrofinancial...
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. Key to our estimation strategy is the use of survey-based expectations for inflation and output. Output and inflation …
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This paper develops a teaching apparatus of Lucas's 1972 model aimed at improving students' ability to interpret the underlying structure of modern macroeconomics models. In this respect, the Lucas island model represents the perfect "case study", since it falls into the narrow range of mile...
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to deal with deflation. In essence, he wanted inflation to compensate for deflation, but contrary to conservative dogma …, Keynes was not a crude inflationist -- he wanted stable money and opposed both inflation and deflation. A key problem, then …
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How do monopolistically competitive industries react to shocks in the context of a New Keynesian macro model? I bridge macroeconomics and trade theory by considering market dynamics. I use an analytically tractable closed-economy model with endogenous entry of firms and show the implications of...
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The recent global financial crisis has increased interest in macroeconomic models that incorporate financial linkages. Here, we compare the simulation properties of five medium-sized general equilibrium models used in eurosystem central banks which incorporate such linkages. The financial...
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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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The present article is an attempt to reconstruct a macro-dynamic theory of the monetary economy on the basis of the theory of monopolistically competitive firms formulated as a micro-foundation for the decentralized price mechanism. It shows how the micro-founded theorization of the very...
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revert into busts. If central banks pursue a policy of inflation targeting and prevent deflation from happening when …
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