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The objectives of this study are three-fold. The first is to rebut Charles Kindleberger’s famous dictum that usury ‘belongs less to economic history than to the history of ideas’; and in particular to demonstrate that the resuscitation of the anti-usury campaign from the early 13th century...
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We study how income inequality affects monetary policy through the inequality-household debt channel. We design a minimal macro Agent-Based model that replicates several stylized facts, including two novel ones: falling aggregate saving rate and decreasing bankruptcies during the household's...
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We model a typical Asian-crisis-economy using dynamic general equilibrium tech-niques. Exchange rates obtain from nontrivial fiat-currencies demands. Sudden stops/bank-panics are possible, and key for evaluating the merits of alternative ex-change rate regimes. Strategic complementarities...
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-level targeting, through the stabilization of private sector expectations, might be a better monetary rule than inflation targeting in …
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in inflation implies a high real marginal cost and low share prices in a sticky-price economy. We find that if the New … Keynesian Phillips curve has a lagged inflation term caused by price indexation, this effect is weakened. Moreover, equilibrium …
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This paper addresses the perspective of Hayek’s doctrine on monetary arrangements in the economy and his favorable argument for an international central bank over national central bank. I also discussed Hayek’s view on free banking (i.e. for the free issue of bank notes) that would enable...
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change in the growth rate of money supply can affect real out- put through the impact of inflation on net worth. In a sense … the monetary transmission mechanism we are focusing on consists of a combination of the inflation tax effect and the net … worth channel. Contrary to the traditional view, at least for some parameter restrictions, an increase of the inflation tax …
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inflation is induced into the economy. On the other hand, due to the difference between real GDP growth rate and nominal lending … rate, a cost push inflation is created. We quantitatively measure the amount of nominal interest income the depositors … goods which is not supported by the accompanying real GDP growth rate and thereby causing inflation in the economy. We …
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We examine the accuracy of survey-based expectations of the Chilean exchange rate relative to the US dollar. Our out-of-sample analysis reveals that survey-based forecasts outperform the Driftless Random Walk (DRW) in terms of Mean Squared Prediction Error at several forecasting horizons. This...
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inflation is induced into the economy. On the other hand, due to the difference between real GDP growth rate and nominal lending … rate, a cost push inflation is created. We quantitatively measure the amount of nominal interest income the depositors … goods which is not supported by the accompanying real GDP growth rate and thereby causing inflation in the economy. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015263852