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A challenge to models of equilibrium indeterminacy based on increasing returns is that required increasing returns for … generating indeterminacy can be implausibly large and rise quickly with the relative risk aversion in labor. We show that … unsynchronized wage adjustment via a relative wage effect can both lower the required degree of increasing returns for indeterminacy …
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in response solely to future in°ation induce real indeterminacy of equilibrium. Applying the Samuelson … by itself has a quantitatively negligible effect and almost all strict inflation-targeting rules lead to indeterminacy … stickiness, indeterminacy is much less likely to occur as policy also responds to output. With estimated labor supply elasticity …
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in response solely to future inflation induce real indeterminacy of equilibrium. Applying the Samuelson … by itself has a quantitatively negligible effect and almost all strict inflation-targeting rules lead to indeterminacy … stickiness, indeterminacy is much less likely to occur as policy also responds to output. With estimated labor supply elasticity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005178568
This paper studies the growth effect of money supply in the presence of increasing returns and endogenous labor supply. By using a simple model of endogenous growth with a cash-in-advance constraint, it is shown that the growth effect of money supply depends on the specifications of preference...
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We examine the role of expectations in the Great Moderation episode. We derive theoretical restrictions in a New-Keynesian model and test them using measures of expectations obtained from survey data, the Greenbook and bond markets. Expectations explain the dynamics of inflation and of interest...
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We introduce increasing returns to scale into an otherwise standard New Keynesian model with capital, and study the determinacy and E-stability of Taylor-type interest rate rules. With very mild increasing returns supported by empirical research, the conventional wisdom regarding the design of...
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The dominant role of the "new consensus models" in central banks’ policy-making in the last two decades has triggered the reaction of post-Keynesian economists to examine alternatives to inflation-targeting monetary strategies and to Taylor-type interest rate rules. This paper develops a...
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Several prominent economists have argued that existing DSGE models cannot properly account for the evolution of key macroeconomic variables during and following the recent Great Recession. We challenge this argument by showing that a standard DSGE model with financial frictions available prior...
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We argue that the vast bulk of movements in aggregate real economic activity during the Great Recession were due to financial frictions. We reach this conclusion by looking through the lens of an estimated New Keynesian model in which firms face moderate degrees of price rigidities, no nominal...
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The main objective of the present paper is to investigate explicitly the role of the state of confidence for the macroeconomic dynamics of two interacting economies using the opinion dy- namics approach by Weidlich and Haag (1983) and Lux (1995). Particularly, the overall state of confidence in...
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