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.S. (i.e., forward-looking monetary policy), but not in Japan. The central banks in both countries react sharply to demand …
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information for future output and inflation because of its impact on financial spreads. And so we decompose broad money into …
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We show that a flex-price two-sector open economy DSGE model can explain the poor degree of international risk sharing and exchange rate disconnect. We use a suite of model evaluation measures and examine the role of (i) traded and non-traded sectors; (ii) financial market incompleteness; (iii)...
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The link between aggregate profits and investment has been widely analysed through the impact of profits on net worth and therefore the firm's ability to borrow, in the presence of credit market imperfections. How the business cycle is affected if profits also affect investment through an impact...
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This paper analyses the effect of the education of the self-employed on the success of their firms during economic downturn and upturn in the 1990s in Finland. We find that the business cycle affects the relative closure rates of firms run by the self-employed with any level of education. Exit...
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This paper investigates a rational dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with a stockout constraint and a production chain. Our model shows that both stockout avoidance and cost shock mechanisms replicate stylised inventory facts
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In this paper we propose Granger (non-)causality tests based on a VAR model allowing for time-varying coefficients. The functional form of the time-varying coefficients is a Logistic Smooth Transition Autoregressive (LSTAR) model using time as the transition variable. The model allows for...
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The main purpose of this paper is to determine whether inflation in South Africa has been caused by excessive monetary … inflation as the relevant inflation variable, given that the M3 money demand function is deflated by consumer price inflation … endogenous to consumer price inflation and broad measures of inflation. The most important policy implication of an endogenously …
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