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financially included agents above the socially efficient level. We conduct a quantitative assessment for the case of India. Our …
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, monetary policy has distributional consequences. To quantify these effects, we calibrate our model to India, accounting for a …
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Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic discounting, small positive rates of inflation can be optimal. In … our baseline calibration, the optimal rate of inflation is 2.1% and remains positive across a wide range of calibrations …. -- optimal monetary policy ; inflation targeting ; unemployment ; Phillips curve ; nominal inertia ; monetary policy …
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We consider the desirability of modifying a standard Taylor rule for a central bank’s interest rate policy to incorporate either an adjustment for changes in interest rate spreads (as proposed by Taylor [2008] and McCulley and Toloui [2008]) or a response to variations in the aggregate volume...
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We extend a standard New Keynesian model both to incorporate heterogeneity in spending opportunities along with two sources of (potentially time-varying) credit spreads and to allow a role for the central bank’s balance sheet in determining equilibrium. We use the model to investigate the...
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We study the extent to which the belief-formation process affects the dynamics of macroeconomic variables when the central bank uses forward guidance. Standard sticky-price models imply that far future forward guidance has huge and implausible effects on current outcomes, these effects grow in...
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This paper provides a critique of zero lower bound (ZLB) economics which has become the new orthodoxy for explaining stagnation. ZLB economics is an extension of pre-Keynesian economics which attributes macroeconomic dysfunction to rigidities and market imperfections. The ZLB is the latest...
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Vickrey's fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives, which he applied to the areas of taxation, auction … theory, and pricing. His work focused on the economics of asymmetric and private information. Critics of Vickrey's full …
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-LM curves introduced by Hicks to describe Keynes' general theory. IS-LM analysis is thus not incompatible with full market …
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Money provides liquidity services through a cash-in-advance constraint. The exchange of commodities and assets extends over an infinite horizon under uncertainty and a complete asset market. Monetary policy sets the path of rates of interest and accommodates the demand for balances. Competitive...
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