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money growth might be an important determinant of cyclical developments in real GDP beyond effects already captured by short … properties are also maintained when looking at a broader set of non-monetary indicator variables. Narrow money therefore seems …. As a result, once the information from narrow money is taken into account, what matters more for the forecast performance …
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individuals use money to make transactions, and hence microfoundations for the cash in advance constraint. We analyze the … specialized merchant, the carrier, appears and causes frictions among traders leading to the appearance of money. There are … chosen to act as money, and the level of economic development. …
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money has nothing to do with traded output, but everything to do with storing value. But now a new trade theory takes over … monetary theory, by reducing money into a mere tool of trade, as just a means of payment. It takes over theory of exchange … arbitrage, and payments through seigniorage (by creating and issuing money). Suddenly economics studies economy rather than …
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indirect trade, money also must be used. Micro says that price is equal to marginal cost, rejecting trade theory’s claim that … trade is gainful. To remove these and other contradictions, price theory must be repaired. Money’s role in market clearing …
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include only domestically held currency. The paper defines and estimates the size of the ‘domestic money supply”. Reference …
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's rule: short run increases in the money stock - whether through issuing spending coupons, open market operations or foreign … exchange intervention - change nothing as long as the money stock shrinks in the long run. Second, two simple ``Keynesian …
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Through explicitly incorporating analysts' forecasts as observable factors in a dynamic arbitrage- free model of the yield curve, this paper proposes a framework for studying the impact of shifts in market sentiment on interest rates of all maturities. An empirical examination reveals that...
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This paper studies the gain from using money as an indicator when monetary policy in made under data uncertainty. We … state of the economy. Money reveals some of the private sector’s information to the policymaker, especially if there is a … forward looking element in money demand. We show that observing money can considerably reduce the loss that is due to …
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In this paper we explore the possibility, heretofore unexplored in the marketing literature, that firms “invest funds” in their pricing processes. This builds on some of the recent economic work on the costs of price adjustment. To do this we undertook a two-year, cross- disciplinary,...
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The main goal of this essay is to analyze the emergence of a barter economy, and the rise of centralized merchants and a barter redistribution system out of a primitive barter system. The environment is a spatial general equilibrium model where exchange is costly. Since exchange becomes more...
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