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作者：Casares, Miguel
作者单位：Universidad Publica de Navarra
摘要：The idea that the investment process takes time to produce finished capital goods was an integral part of Kydland and Prescott's early work on real business cycles, but this feature has been dropped in much recent work, mainly because it seemed to have little effect on macroeconomic dynamics. With a generalization of the time- to-build feature that incorporates multiple types of capital, however, a New Keynesian model can produce u-shaped responses in output, investment, and inflation to a mon...
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作者：Beaudry, Paul; Collard, Fabrice
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Universite de Toulouse; University of British Columbia
摘要：This paper examines the extent to which the process of globalization can explain the observed widening in the cross-country distribution of output-per-worker. On the theoretical front the model highlights why, when the labor market is subject to a holdup problem, the opening up of trade will cause an increase in the dispersion of income across countries similar to that observed in the data. The increase in dispersion in the model arises due to the emergence of a discrepancy between the private...
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作者：Wang, Weimin; Shi, Shouyong
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：We construct a dynamic equilibrium model where there is costly search in the goods market and the labor market. Incorporating shocks to money growth and productivity, we calibrate the model to the US time series data to examine the model's quantitative predictions on aggregate variables and, in particular, on the variability of consumption velocity of money. Despite the fact that money is the only asset, the model captures most of the variability of velocity in the data. It also generates real...
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作者：Deidda, LG
作者单位：University of London; University of London School Oriental & African Studies (SOAS); University of Cagliari; University of Sassari
摘要：This paper presents a model of financial and economic development which assumes the consumption of real resources by the financial sector. Financial development occurs endogenously as the economy reaches a critical threshold of economic development. Compared to financial autarky, financial intermediaries allocate savings, net of their costs of operation, to more productive investments. Whenever the technology financed by intermediaries is more capital-intensive than that operated in financial ...
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作者：Dynan, KE; Elmendorf, DW; Sichel, DE
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
摘要：The stabilization of economic activity in the mid 1980s has received considerable attention. Research has focused primarily on the role played by milder economic shocks, improved inventory management, and better monetary policy. This paper explores another potential explanation: financial innovation. Examples of such innovation include developments in lending practices and loan markets that have enhanced the ability of households and firms to borrow and changes in government policy such as the...
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作者：Flandreau, Marc; Komlos, John
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：An experiment with an exchange-rate band in Austria-Hungary in the early 20th century provides a rare opportunity to discuss critical aspects of the theory of target zones. Providing a new derivation of the target zone model as a set of nested hypotheses, the inference is drawn that policy credibility and market efficiency were paramount in the success of the Austro-Hungarian experience. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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作者：Iacoviello, Matteo; Minetti, Raoul
作者单位：Boston College; Michigan State University
摘要：We examine the international transmission of business cycles in a two-country model where credit contracts are imperfectly enforceable. In our economy, foreign lenders differ from domestic lenders in their ability to recover value from borrowers' assets and, therefore, to protect themselves against contractual non-enforceability. The relative importance of domestic and foreign credit frictions changes over the cycle. This induces entrepreneurs to adjust their debt exposure and allocation of co...
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作者：Krueger, Dirk; Uhlig, Harald
作者单位：Goethe University Frankfurt; Humboldt University of Berlin
摘要：This paper analyzes dynamic equilibrium risk sharing contracts between profit-maximizing intermediaries and a large pool of ex ante identical agents that face idiosyncratic income uncertainty that makes them heterogeneous ex post. In any given period, after having observed her income, the agent can walk away from the contract, while the intermediary cannot, i.e. there is one-sided commitment. We consider the extreme scenario that the agents face no costs to walking away, and can sign up with a...
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作者：Martin, Antoine; Schreft, Stacey L.
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Kansas City; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York
摘要：This paper establishes the existence of equilibria for environments in which outside money is issued competitively. Such equilibria are typically believed not to exist because of a classic overissue problem: if money is valued in equilibrium, an issuer produces money until its value is driven to zero. By backward induction, money cannot have value in the first place. This paper shows that overissuance is not a problem if agents believe that if an issuer produces more than some threshold number...
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作者：Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Sahin, Aysegul
作者单位：University of Virginia; Universite de Montreal; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York
摘要：Unskilled workers are subject to a much larger risk of unemployment during recessions than are skilled workers. Moreover, unskilled workers earn less income, which limits their ability to self-insure. We examine how this heterogeneity in unemployment risk and income across different skill groups translates into heterogeneity in the cost of business cycles. We find that the welfare cost of business cycles for unskilled workers is substantially higher than the welfare cost for skilled workers. (...
