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market regularities and (ii) macroeconomic dynamics (long-term rates of growth, GDP uctuations, unemployment rates … relations are conducive to coordination successes with higher and smoother growth. …
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The Traverse refers to the movement of the economy outside equilibrium. It requires a consideration of how an economy may achieve equilibrium, and how it may navigate towards a new one if conditions change. Analysis of these themes, from the classical economists onwards, leads to the conclusion...
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coordination hurdles. In his analysis Joe is in many respects a "closet evolutionist" who in fact highlighted and explored many … properties e.g. coordination failures and the possibility of path-dependent multiplicity of growth trajectories which are far and … major themes, namely, the consequences of learning and dynamic increasing returns, and "Keynesian" coordination failures …
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We develop a theory of labor markets in a monetary economy with four realistic features: search frictions, worker productivity shocks, wage rigidity, and two-sided lack of commitment. Due to the non-Coasean nature of labor contracts, inefficient job separations occur in the form of endogenous...
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This paper examines the asset pricing implications of nominal rigidities. Firms that adjust their product prices infrequently earn a return premium of 4% per year. Merging unique product-price data at the firm level with stock returns, I document that the premium for sticky-price firms is a...
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This paper derives explicitly an equity pricing relationship in a New Keynesian model. This relationship is used to study the equity pricing implications of New Keynesian models. I find that New Keynesian models suffer from the same asset pricing shortcomings as more traditional RBC versions....
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In this paper I review recent Post-Keynesian debates about the notion of liquidity preference in the context both of Keynes' writings on and after the General Theory and also, modern portfolio theory. First, the paper reviews the Hayek-Sraffa debate to focus on certain issues raised by its...
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This paper traces the evolution of John Maynard Keynes’s theory of the business cycle from his early writings in 1913 to his policy prescriptions for the control of fluctuations in the early 1940s. The paper identifies six different “theories” of business fluctuations. With different...
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In this paper I will follow Hyman Minsky in arguing that the postwar period has seen a slow transformation of the economy from a structure that could be characterized as "robust" to one that is "fragile." While many economists and policymakers have argued that "no one saw it coming," Minsky and...
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Since the beginning of the fall of monetarism in the mid-1980s, mainstream macroeconomics has incorporated many of the principles of post-Keynesian endogenous money theory. This paper argues that the most important critical component of post-Keynesian monetary theory today is its rejection of...
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