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Monetary policy is modeled as governed by a known rule, except for a time-varying target rate of inflation. The variable target is taken as representing either discretionary deviations from the rule, or as the outcome of a policymaking committee that is unable to arrive at a consensus....
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In his seminal 1960 study on the dynamics of alternative exchange rate regimes, Robert Mundell proposed a theory of balance-of-payments crises in which speculators base their actions on the observed holdings of central bank foreign reserves. We examine the quantitative implications of this view...
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A simple model of currency substitution is developed in which the private cost of performing transactions in the foreign currency depends upon the aggregate degree of dollarization. This feature generates multiple steady states and hysteresis in an otherwise standard cash-in-advance model of a...
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a speech at the The Brimmer Policy Forum, Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, January 8, 2011
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the supply of home goods or to the real rate of return are the main source of uncertainty, and increases when fluctuations … fluctuations due to self-fulfilling expectations. I also analyze the stabilizing role of these PPP rules when fluctuations are … are mainly due to shocks to the supply of traded goods. In all cases, PPP rules increase the volatility of nominal …
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a speech at the Committee for Economic Development 2010 International Counterparts Conference, New York, New York, December 1, 2010
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temporary money based program (MB)--this paper considers a third stabilization policy consisting of a temporary money based … program with initial reliquefication--i.e., an initial once-and-for-all increase in the money supply--that keeps the nominal …
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a speech at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Business Economics, Denver, Colorado, October 11, 2010
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Remarks at the National Association of Business Economists, Washington, DC, March 13, 1996
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remarks at the Economic Club of New York, New York, New York, April 11, 2011
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