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Money and prices under uncertainty
Nakajima, Tomoyuki; Polemarchakis, Herakles - 2001
Monetary and fiscal policy do not determine the stochastic path of prices: in the absence of financial policy, there remains indeterminacy indexed by an arbitrary probability measure over the set of states of the world. With an interest rate policy, and only if the asset market is complete,...
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Considering the shareholder perspective: value-based management systems and stock market performance
Rapp, Marc Steffen; Schellong, Daniel A.; Schmidt, … - 2010
We empirically study the use of value-based management systems in listed German firms and examine implications for firms' stock market performance. Using a novel, hand-collected data set covering 1,083 firm years from 2002 to 2008, we find that value-based management systems become increasingly...
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State finances in India: A case for systemic reform
Singh, Nirvikar - 2005
This paper provides a self-contained overview of the present problems of state finances in India. It begins with an overview of historical evolution and current institutional structures, including economic, political, administrative and fiscal aspects of India's federal system. The paper then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322719
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Structural Volatility in Chile: A Policy Report
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000
shocks, a propensity to waste scarce liquidity in the banking system; and limited development of financial markets. The paper …-cyclical policies, Improving liquidity aggregation through and within the banking sector during crises, and improving the liquidity and …
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The European Central Bank and why things are the way they are: A historic monetary policy pivot point and moment of (relative) clarity
Dubois, Robert - 2012
struggling to escape liquidity quicksands and stubbornly low or negative growth and employment trends. At the center of the … monetary policy pivot point. Since November 2011, the ECB has taken on an arguably activist liquidity-provider role relative to … integration. In December 2011, the ECB made clear its intention to inject massive liquidity when faced with crises of scale in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286538
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Fiscal policy in a Stock-Flow Consistent (SFC) model
Godley, Wynne; Lavoie, Marc - 2007
This paper deploys a simple stock-flow consistent (SFC) model in order to examine various contentions regarding fiscal and monetary policy. It follows from the model that if the fiscal stance is not set in the appropriate fashionthat is, at a well-defined level and growth ratethen full...
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Fiscal and monetary policies and the cost of sudden stops
Hutchison, Michael M.; Noy, Ilan; Wang, Lidan - 2007
This article investigates the effects of macroeconomic policy (monetary and fiscal) on output growth during financial crises characterized by a sudden stop" in net capital inflows in developing and emerging market economies. We investigate 83 sudden stop crises in 77 countries over 1982-2003...
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The "Keynesian moment" in policymaking, the perils ahead, and a flow-of-funds interpretation of fiscal policy
Terzi, Andrea - 2010
With the global crisis, the policy stance around the world has been shaken by massive government and central bank efforts to prevent the meltdown of markets, banks, and the economy. Fiscal packages, in varied sizes, have been adopted throughout the world after years of proclaimed fiscal...
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The (ir)relevance of real wage rigidity in the New Keynesian model with search frictions
Krause, Michael U.; Lubik, Thomas A. - 2003
We explore the role of real wage dynamics in a New Keynesian business cycle model with search and matching frictions in the labor market. Both job creation and destruction are endogenous. We show that the model generates counterfactual inflation and labor market dynamics. In particular, it fails...
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New Keynesian dynamics in a low interest rate environment
Braun, R. Anton; Körber, Lena Mareen - 2011
specifications of the New Keynesian model that produce unorthodox results in a liquidity trap may be misplaced. We show that a … prototypical New Keynesian model fit to Japanese data exhibits orthodox dynamics during Japan's episode with zero interest rates …. We then demonstrate that this specification is more consistent with outcomes in Japan than alternative specifications …
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