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In response to the Great Financial Crisis, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and many other central banks have adopted unconventional monetary policy instruments. We investigate if one of these, purchases of long-term government debt, could be a valuable addition to conventional...
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either the loan to value ratio declines or house prices fall, we observe a decrease in the money multiplier. We argue that … the central bank should respond to the fall in the money multiplier and therefore to the reduction in house prices or the … money multiplier in response to the drop in the loan to collateral value ratio. …
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We construct a search-theoretic model where fiat money coexists with real assets, and all assets can be used as a media … facts: (i) fiat money can be valued despite being dominated in its rate of return; (ii) real assets with identical dividend …
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In this study, we develop a search-and-matching monetary growth model to analyze the effects of inflation on economic growth and social welfare by introducing endogenous economic growth via capital externality into a two-sector search-and-matching model. We find that the channel through which...
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in productivity: hours fall, nominal wages hardly react, and real wages go up with some delay. Regarding money supply …
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only the money growth rate if commitment to interbank contracts is not limited. Otherwise, a proper combination of central …
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Following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, interbank borrowing and lending dropped, whereas reserve holdings of depository institutions skyrocketed, as the Fed injected liquidity into the U.S. banking sector. This paper introduces bank liquidity risk and limited market participation into a...
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This work studies the relations between income distribution and monetary/fiscal policies using an credit-augmented version of the agent-based Keynesian model in Dosi et al. (2010). We model a banking sector and a monetary authority setting interest rates and credit lending conditions in a...
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In a forward-looking business cycle model, central banks can achieve the (timeless)optimal commitment equilibrium even in the absence of a commitment technology, if they are delegated with an objective function that is different from the societal one. The paper develops a general...
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We prove that the Generalized Taylor Principle, under which the nominal interest rate reacts more than one-for-one to a change in inflation in the long run, is a necessary and (under some extra mild restrictions on parameters) sufficient condition for determinacy in a sticky price model with...
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