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作者：Johnson, DR
作者单位：Wilfrid Laurier University
摘要：Inflation targets were introduced in the 1990s in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Change in the behavior of expected inflation in the five targeting countries is measured in a panel that includes six non-targeting countries: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and the United States. The level of expected inflation in targeting countries falls after the announcement of targets with controls for country effects, year effects, ongoing inflation reduction ...
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作者：Bental, B; Eden, B
作者单位：University of Haifa; Vanderbilt University
摘要：When trade is uncertain and sequential, a fractional reserve banking system may give rise to endogenous monetary shocks. These endogenous monetary shocks lead to fluctuations in capacity utilization and waste. When fluctuations in the currency/deposit ratio are the important source of the monetary shocks, a high reserve requirement on checkable accounts can minimize this waste. When fluctuations in the fraction of credit-card transactions are important, then low reserve requirements will minim...
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作者：Cooper, R; Johri, A
作者单位：McMaster University; Boston University
摘要：An unresolved issue in business cycle theory is the endogenous propagation of shocks yielding allocations that exhibit the persistence displayed in the data. This paper explores the quantitative implications of one propagation mechanism: learning-by-doing, whose parameters are estimated using sectoral and plant level observations in the U.S. which are then integrated into a stochastic growth model with technology shocks. We conclude that learning-by-doing can be a powerful mechanism for genera...
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作者：Athreya, KB
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Richmond
摘要：In recent years personal bankruptcy has become an important issue to consumers, creditors, and legislators alike. Over 40 billion dollars of unsecured debt were discharged in 1998 by 1.44 million households. These losses have led legislators to propose a variety of changes in bankruptcy law, the most important and recent of which is the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999 (BA99). I develop a dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium model of personal bankruptcy to investigate the trade-off between th...
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作者：Berentsen, A; Rocheteau, G
作者单位：Australian National University; University of Basel
摘要：We use alternative assumptions about the divisibility of goods and money and the ability of agents to use lotteries on money to investigate to what extent the indivisibility of money is the cause for the typically inefficient production and consumption decisions in search-theoretic models of money. Our framework potentially generates three types of inefficiencies: the no-trade inefficiency, where no trade takes place even though it would be socially efficient to trade; and the too-much-trade a...
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作者：Kahn, M; Kandel, S; Sarig, O
作者单位：Reichman University; University of Pennsylvania; Tel Aviv University; Bank of Israel
摘要：We examine the impact of monetary policy using Israeli data on nominal and indexed bonds, which allow us to decompose nominal interest rates into inflation expectations and ex ante real interest rates. We find that a monetary policy shock, introduced by raising the overnight rate the Bank of Israel charges member banks, raises real interest rates but lowers inflation expectations. Long-term real interest rates are less impacted than short-term rates. Lastly, monetary shocks affect the exchange...
