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Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of the keeping up with the Joneses type. We find that sufficiently procyclical labor and/or capital...
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redistributed across households in steady state. Inequality leads to equilibrium indeterminacy and undermines the theoretical …
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This paper derives restrictions on monetary and fiscal policies for determinate equilibria in a two-country monetary union with autarkic members. It finds that a central bank following the Taylor principle may not be sufficient for determinacy unless accompanied by one 'active' fiscal authority...
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Using an efficiency-wage model, we examine the relationship between indeterminacy and unemployment insurance. It is … indeterminacy. Our result is based on the fact that the no-shirking condition with marginal utility ofw ealth kept constant is …
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indeterminacy of equilibria and instability under adaptive learning. However, some other forms of CIR policy perform better. We also …
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Separately, news and sunspot shocks have been shown empirically to be determinants of changes in expectations. This paper considers both of them together in a simple New Keynesian monetary business cycle model. A full set of rational expectations solutions is derived analytically. The analytical...
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Separately, news and sunspot shocks have been shown empirically to be determinants of changes in expectations. This paper considers both of them together in a simple New Keynesian monetary business cycle model. A full set of rational expectations solutions is derived analytically. The analytical...
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We demonstrate the possibility of indeterminacy and non-existence of equilibrium dynamics in a standard business cycle …
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source of indeterminacy. …
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postwar US macroeconomic data can be explained as the outcome of passive monetary policy, indeterminacy, and sunspot … allowing the parameters to fall both in the determinacy and indeterminacy regions. The estimates reveal large shares of agents … results confirm that macroeconomic data in the early windows are better explained by indeterminacy, while determinacy is …
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