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This paper studies the joint business cycle dynamics of inflation, money growth, nominal and real interest rates and the …
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Central bankers’ conventional wisdom suggests that nominal interest rates should be raised to implement a lower inflation target. In contrast, I show that the standard New Keynesian monetary model predicts that nominal interest rates should bedecreased to attain this goal. Real interest rates,...
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remain effective even when the nominal bank lending rate has reached zero or become negative; (ii) it is a good policy to …
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We develop a N-sector business cycle network model a la Long and Plosser (1983), featuring heterogenous money demand a la Bewley (1980) and Lucas (1980). Despite incomplete markets and a well-defined distribution of real money balances across heterogeneous households, the enriched N-sector...
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Using the data on maintenance expenditures and self-assessed house value, I separate the measure of individual housing … stock and house prices, and use these data for testing whether nondurable consumption and housing are characterized by … nondurable consumption and housing. I reach a similar conclusion for some separate consumption categories, such as food and …
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In this paper, I study the role of housing for wealth accumulation and the determination of the equilibrium real … increase in the share of housing wealth of almost 8 pp. All of these patterns are broadly in line with the empirical …
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Housing, particularly for low income urban households, is a long-standing challenge in India. In 2012, 96 per cent of … the all India urban housing shortage of 18.78 million was confined to low-income economic groups. This study empirically … examines three facets of urban India's housing demand using the latest available nationally representative household data on …
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This paper estimates the importance of temptation (Gul and Pesendorfer, 2001) for consumption smoothing and asset accumulation in a structural life-cycle model. We use two complementary estimation strategies: first, we estimate the Euler equation of this model; and second we match liquid and...
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looking at the effect of a reduction in the maximum loan-to-value (LTV) ratio on homeownership rates, house prices and housing … households face uninsurable income risk and an endogenous borrowing limit in the form of a collateral constraint. This constraint … is initially loose, allowing households to lever up against the collateral value of their housing. A reduction in the LTV …
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