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Liquidity Traps: How to Avoid Them and How to Escape Them

Buiter, Willem H.; Panigirtzoglou, Nikolaos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

interest rates are associated with significantly lower interest volatility, a lower average rate of inflation, which will be …

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Asset Market Participation, Monetary Policy Rules and the Great Inflation

Bilbiie, Florin Ovidiu; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

the Great Inflation and the Great Moderation. …

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Monetary Misconceptions: New and Old Paradigmata and Other Sad Tales

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Several recent studies imply that the response of national saving to fiscal policy is non-monotonic. In this paper, we use two data sets to search for the circumstances in which such non-monotonic responses arise: one refers to a sample of OECD countries, as in previous studies, and one to a...

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Inflation Targeting as the New Golden Standard

Spivak, Avia; Sussman, Nathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Financial globalization has seen the emergence of a new monetary standard based on inflation targeting. At the same … constrain the independence of central banks to conduct monetary policy? We argue, and show empirically, that credible inflation … limited deviation was possible within the 'gold points'. On the other hand, the credibility of inflation targeting regime is …

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Credit, Financial Stability, and the Macroeconomy

Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...

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Credit Spreads and Credit Policies

Correia, Isabel; De Fiore, Fiorella; Teles, Pedro; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

How should monetary and fiscal policy react to adverse financial shocks? If monetary policy is constrained by the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate, subsidising the interest rate on loans is the optimal policy. The subsidies can mimic movements in the interest rate and can therefore...

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The Timing of Monetary Policy Shocks

Olivei, Giovanni; Tenreyro, Silvana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

A vast empirical literature has documented delayed and persistent effects of monetary policy shocks on output. We show that this finding results from the aggregation of output impulse responses that differ sharply depending on the timing of the shock: When the monetary policy shock takes place...

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Will EMU Increase Eurosclerosis?

Bentolila, Samuel; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

nominal and real wage rigidity) and social preferences regarding inflation, employment, and real wages. We also calibrate our …

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Betting the House

Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...

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New-Keynesian Macroeconomics and the Term Structure

Bekaert, Geert; Cho, Seonghoon; Moreno Ibáñez, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

. Whereas our methodology is general, we focus on an extended macro-model with unobservable processes for the inflation target … inflation target dominates the variation in the 'level factor' whereas monetary policy shocks dominate the variation in the …

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