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-consistent expectations. This implicitly assumes unrealistic cognitive abilities on the part of economic decision makers. The relevant … question, however, is not whether the assumption can be literally correct, but how much it would matter to model decision … problems such as chess or go, in which decision makers look ahead only a finite distance into the future, and use a value …
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the current state can be found by applying statistical regression methods to past macroeconomic data. Theory is only …
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We study the transmission of monetary policy in credit economies where money serves as a medium of exchange. We find that—in contrast to current conventional wisdom in policy-oriented research in monetary economics—the role of money in transactions can be a powerful conduit to asset prices...
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This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short run and flexible in the long run. Policy is evaluated by how well it raises the...
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In a very broad class of dynamic linear models, if agents possess knowledge of current endogenous variables in a least …
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not to be true there is no significant difference in average decision lags. Furthermore, and also surprisingly, there is … no significant difference in the decision lag when groups decisions are made by majority rule versus when they are made …
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The paper generalizes the Taylor principle---the proposition that central banks can stabilize the macroeconomy by raising their interest rate instrument more than one-for-one in response to higher inflation---to an environment in which reaction coefficients in the monetary policy rule evolve...
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empirically controversial. We apply theory and empirics to the interwar data and find strong support for the logic of the trilemma …
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