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This chapter gives an overview of the recent literature on indeterminacy and sunspots in macroeconomics. It discusses … effects, monopolistic competition, and increasing returns in generating indeterminacy is explored for one-sector and multi …-sector models of real business cycles and of economic growth. Indeterminacy is also studied in monetary models, as well as in models …
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indeterminate and stable sunspots are possible. We find that capital adjustment costs of any size preclude stable sunspots for every … size are considered, a necessary condition for the existence of stable sunspots is an upward- sloping labor demand curve in … the standard result that when we abstract from capital adjustment costs, stable sunspots occur in the two-sector model for …
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This paper demonstrates the existence of a finite set of equilibria in the case of the indeterminacy of linear rational … eigenvectors related to stable eigenvalues. A finite set of equilibria is a substitute to continuous (uncountable) sets of sunspots …
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postwar US macroeconomic data can be explained as the outcome of passive monetary policy, indeterminacy, and sunspot … windows and allowing the parameters to fall both in the determinacy and indeterminacy regions. The estimates reveal large … the sample. The results confirm that macroeconomic data in the early windows are better explained by indeterminacy, while …
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The compelling case offered by Austrians regarding the recent economic downturn has no doubt encouraged many to take a closer look at the broader Austrian perspective. Similarly, the jobless recovery has prompted some soul searching in labor economics. We briefly review the history and...
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Monetarism is often misunderstood, overlooked, forgotten, or even derided. Yet its basic logic, resting on the quantity theory of money, is evident and remains important in a world of pure fiat monies. Most major central banks have abandoned monetary targeting in favor of setting interest rates...
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This paper explores the impacts of the Federal Funds Rate (FFR), a significant money market indicator, on the prime lending rates offered by commercial banks. Prior to 1994, the FFR had lagged effects on prime rates, but since the second quarter of 1994, the Federal Reserve Bank has implemented...
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