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This dissertation is comprised of three essays that examine various aspects of macroeconomics linked to labor economics. The first essay develops an understanding of how, in addition to search frictions, labor heterogeneity can influence aggregate labor-market fluctuations, and, in particular,...
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This study investigates the effect of CBDC issuance on economic growth rate and inflation rate in Nigeria. We are … interested in determining whether the rate of economic growth and inflation changed significantly after the issuance of a non …-interest bearing CBDC in Nigeria. Two-stage least square regression and granger causality test were used to analyse the data. Inflation …
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Conventional empirical models of monetary policy transmission in emerging market economies produce puzzling results: monetary tightening often leads to an increase in prices (the price puzzle) and depreciation of the currency (the FX puzzle). We show that incorporating forward-looking...
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Conventional empirical models of monetary policy transmission in emerging market economies produce puzzling results: monetary tightening often leads to an increase in prices (the price puzzle) and depreciation of the currency (the FX puzzle). We show that incorporating forward-looking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015214450
I characterize optimal government policy in a sticky-price economy with different types of consumers and endogenous financial constraints in the banking and entrepreneurial sectors. The competitive equilibrium allocation is constrained inefficient due to a pecuniary externality implicit in the...
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This study analyses the reaction of the minerals industry to monetary policy developments in South Africa. This is achieved using a Taylor rule type central bank monetary policy reaction function, where the total, or economy wide, output is substituted with output of the minerals industry. The...
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The author of this article draws special attention to two particular claims of the free bankers concerning the supposed working characteristics of a fractional-reserve free banking system which may strike the reader as questionable. The first of these relates to the alleged absence of a...
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shocks occurs simultaneously, showing the importance of inflation targeting. Yet, by focusing only on inefficient exogenous … perturbations, and taking into account a pegged regime and a simple Taylor rule based on consumer and producer price inflation, the …
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Abstract: Grandmont (1985) found that the parameter space of the most classical dynamic general-equilibrium macroeconomic models are stratified into an infinite number of subsets supporting an infinite number of different kinds of dynamics, from monotonic stability at one extreme to chaos at the...
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key macro variables; domestic inflation, imported inflation, output, consumption, interest rate, exchange rate, term of … trade to different structural/exogenous shocks. From several interesting results, few are; (a) high inflation in Pakistan do … not hit domestic consumption significantly; (b) Central bank of Pakistan responds to high inflation by increasing the …
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