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This article assesses economic growth in the context of consumer saturation. We show that consumer based economies tend to suffer from demand saturation after an initial and prolonged period of growth. However, structural demand saturation irrevocably triggers a Minsky-type super cycle that is...
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unemployment. Our model succeeds in replicating the empirical fact of a downward sloping Phillips curve for low inflation rates and … an upward sloping curve for high inflation rates. The reason is that low inflation rates make saving, as opposed to …, when inflation exceeds a certain threshold, money is too costly to hold, which results in a decrease in output and an …
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rouble balances and the income elasticity of money is close to unity. Inflation affects the adjustment towards equilibrium …, while broad money shocks lead to higher inflation. We also show that exchange rate fluctuations have a considerable …
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both new and surprising. There are both extensive and intensive margins to currency substitution, and inflation may affect …
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inflation and relative price effects in a nonlinear fashion. Employing data from the post-WWII Chinese hyperinflationary episode …
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When the baby boomers joined the workforce and started saving, money supply and property prices entered a rising trajectory. We conclude that demography was the long-run driver of this process, basing our argument on data from 22 advanced economies for the 1950-2010 period. According to our life...
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In responding to the extremely weak global economy after the financial crisis in 2008, many industrial nations have been considering or have already implemented negative nominal interest rate policy. This situation raises two important questions for monetary theories: (i) Given the widely held...
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Estimates of the welfare costs of inflation based on Bailey (1956) are typically computed using aggregate money demand … models. Yet, the behavior of money demand may vary across sectors. Thus, the impact on welfare of inflation regime shifts may … Great Inflation to the present regime of low and stable inflation. For this purpose, we estimate different functional …
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are both new and surprising. There are both extensive and intensive margins to currency substitution, and inflation may …
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