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line with empirical evidence, the model predicts a short-term inflation-output trade-off, a liquidity effect …
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inflation and inflation volatility. Using annual data from 1970 to 2011 for a large panel of 180 developed and developing … empirical findings show that the effect of inflation volatility is positive, while the effect of trend inflation is negative …. The implication is that reduced inflation volatility (holding trend inflation constant) helps stabilize the business cycle …
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volatility of exogenous shocks in the U.S. economy and (ii) the magnification of shocks over the business cycle …
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The two sector model presented in this note suggests a simple structural decomposition of movements in the price of investment goods into exogenous and endogenous sources. The endogenous fluctuations arise in the presence of countercyclical markups which vary differently across the consumption...
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: (i) monetary volatility negatively affects long-run growth; (ii) the relation between nominal volatility and growth … increases the negative effect of nominal volatility on mean growth. …
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We develop a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model of oligopolistic competition with a continuum of heterogeneous industries. Industries are exposed to aggregate and industry-specific productivity shocks. Firms in each industry set value-maximizing state-contingent markups, taking as given...
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amplifies both the volatility and persistence of the aggregate productivity shocks driving the business cycle …
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amplifies both the volatility and persistence of the aggregate productivity shocks driving the business cycle …
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Firms’ market power, measured by markups, has risen substantially and unequally across sectors. To evaluate the implications of these trends for monetary non-neutrality, we develop a quantitative menu cost model that covers multiple sectors with heterogeneous degrees of market competition. Two...
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preceding the outbreak of the financial crisis in August 2007, caused a relatively low output volatility in other national … economies. The results of the time series analysis of 97 developed and developing countries suggest that low output volatility … in the United States is not likely to be the main source of low output volatility across the world in this period …
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