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Artículo de revista ; This note discusses recent theoretical work analyzing the causes of financial instability, its consequences for the macroeconomy, and thus the potential role for macroprudential policy. After discussing how information asymmetries and strategic complementarities can cause...
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Este documento ocasional resume los avances recientes en el análisis teórico de las causas de la inestabilidad fi nanciera, de sus consecuencias macroeconómicas, y sus implicaciones acerca del posible papel de la política macroprudencial. En primer lugar, se analiza cómo se propagan las...
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This paper considers a dynamic matching model with imperfectly observable worker effort. In equilibrium, the wage distribution is truncated from below by a no-shirking condition. This downward wage rigidity induces the same type of inefficient churning and "contractual fragility" as in Ramey and...
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In this paper, we show that a simple model of smoothly state-dependent pricing generates a distribution of price adjustments similar to that observed in microeconomic data, both for low and high inflation. Our setup is based on one fundamental assumption: price adjustment is more likely when it...
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This paper analyzes the effects of monetary shocks in a DSGE model that allows for a general form of smoothly state-dependent pricing by firms. As in Dotsey, King, and Wolman (1999) and Caballero and Engel (2007), our setup is based on one fundamental property: firms are more likely to adjust...
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We study simple fiscal rules for stabilizing the government debt level in response to asymmetric demand shocks in a country that belongs to a currency union. We compare debt stabilization through tax rate adjustments with debt stabilization through expenditure changes. While rapid and flexible...
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In a search and matching environment, this paper assesses a range of modeling setups against macro evidence for the monetary transmission mechanism in the euro area. In particular, we assess right-to-manage vs. efficient bargaining, flexible vs. sticky wages, interactions at the firm level...
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Proponemos un modelo cuasi racional de ajustes de precios en el mercado minorista que es coherente con la evidencia micro y macro de la dinámica de los precios. Nuestro marco está basado en la idea de que evitar errores en las decisiones implica un coste. Dada la asumida función del coste de...
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Incluye bibliografía ; Este trabajo estudia la delegación de la emisión de deuda soberana en una autoridad independiente, en el contexto de una unión monetaria donde el gasto público se determina de manera descentralizada. En el modelo, ningún agente puede comprometerse definitivamente a...
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Motivado por la persistencia de los déficits públicos en muchos países de la UME, en contra de los compromisos de sus propias reglas fiscales, este papel estudia un régimen fiscal alternativo, según el cual cada país miembro delegaría el control de algún instrumento fiscal a una...
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