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: decreasing hazards may result from aggregating heterogeneous price setters. We show analytically the form of this heterogeneity …
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The paper shows that there is a substantial degree of heterogeneity in forecast accuracy among Fed watchers. Based on a … basis points between the best and worst-performers across the sample. This heterogeneity is found to be related to both the … anticipating monetary policy. Moreover, systematic forecaster heterogeneity is economically important as it leads to greater …
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This paper studies optimal monetary policy responses in an economy featuring sectorial heterogeneity in the frequency …
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involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand … banking in the past. In large part this heterogeneity can be traced to differences in forecasting models. While some …
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This paper proposes a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous households and a financial market where each financial instrument provides liquidity services in addition to enabling a transfer of purchasing power over time. Importantly, liquidity services may be asymmetric according to...
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The paper analyses the heterogeneity in the link between macroeconomic fundamentals and exchange rates. For a set of … exchange rate configurations over the past 25 years. Despite a significant decline over time, this heterogeneity remains high … effective US dollar exchange rate. The paper finds that this heterogeneity is not only due to policy choices of inflexible …
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We present a dynamic general equilibrium model with agency costs, where heterogeneous firms choose among two alternative instruments of external finance - corporate bonds and bank loans. We characterize the financing choice of firms and the endogenous financial structure of the economy. The...
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Policy-making institutions such as the European Commission, the ECB and the OECD often use unit labor costs as a measure of international competitiveness. The goal of this paper is to examine how well this measure is related to international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we...
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study the implications of heterogeneity in forecasts of the central bank and private agents for the performance of interest …
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The aim of this study is to assess empirically to what extent the degree of heterogeneity of consumers’ inflation …
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