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Economic Structure, Policy Objectives, and Optimal Interest Rate Policy at Low Inflation Rates
(Vanderbilt University, 2003)
In this article, the optimal interest rate rule generated by Svennson's (1997) dynamic model is used to determine the impact that a number of key structural characteristics have on the downward flexibility of interest rates ...
Implementing the Friedman Rule by a Government Loan Program: An Overlapping Generations Model
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
The welfare gains from adopting a zero nominal interest policy depend on the implementation details. Here I argue that implementing the Friedman rule by a government loan program may be better than implementing it by ...
Living with a Monetary System infected by Bubbles
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
I study the real effects of bubbles in a price-settingenvironment. Bubbles cause price dispersion and overinvestment in assets that are overvalued. And when they pop some goods are not sold and capacity is not fully utilized. ...
Increasing Returns and Unsynchronized Wage Adjustment in Sunspot Models of the Business Cycle
(Vanderbilt University, 2010)
Abstract: A challenge facing the literature of equilibrium indeterminacy and sunspot-driven business cycle fluctuations based on increasing returns to scale in production is that the required degree of increasing returns ...
Intergenerational Intermediation and Altruistic Preferences
(Vanderbilt University, 2011)
The paper analyzes the intermediation role of government under the assumption that it has an advantage over the private sector in collecting uncollateralized loan payments. It isshown that a government loan program may ...