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We revisit recent evidence on how monetary policy affects output and prices in the U.S. and in the euro area. The response patterns to a shift in monetary policy are similar in most respects, but differ noticeably as to the composition of output changes. In the euro area investment is the...
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the elasticity of substitution is significantly below unity and that the growth rates of technical progress show an … asymmetrical pattern where the growth of laboraugmenting technical progress is exponential, while that of capital is hyperbolic or …
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The reaction of hours worked to technology shocks represents a key controversy between RBC and New Keynesian explanations of the business cycle. It sparked a large empirical literature with contrasting results. We demonstrate that, with a more general and data coherent supply and production...
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-rate smoothing or with GDP growth deviations from trend in place of the output gap. However, improvement vis-à-vis other models …
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Recent empirical studies on the inflation-growth-relationship underline that inflation has negative growth effects … already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining … influence of inflation on factor substitution. It turns out that already in a simple neoclassical monetary growth model this …
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This paper presents a two period overlapping generations model with endogenous growth in the presence of a public … growth of the economy. In addition the transitional process towards fiscal targets critically depends on the adjustment tool …
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This paper investigates fiscal sustainability in an overlapping generations economy with endogenous growth coming from … outlook for economic growth, thereby providing a rationale for fiscal rules ensuring sustainability. Our results show that the … (change in the population growth rate) under different fiscal policy scenarios. …
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The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, product market regulations raise...
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of equipment and software grow on average 3 percentage points faster annually - a doubling of their growth rates. Quality …-adjusted output grows 0.46 percentage points faster annually - a 20 percent increase. In terms of growth accounting, quality … adjustment subtracts 11 percentage points from the share of TFP in aggregate growth and adds them to the share of equipment stock …
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We augment a standard monetary DSGE model to include a banking sector and financial markets. We fit the model to Euro Area and US data. We find that agency problems in financial contracts, liquidity constraints facing banks and shocks that alter the perception of market risk and hit financial...
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