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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 ...
Independent Monetary Policies and Social Equality
(Vanderbilt University, 2003)
The problem of monetary policy delegation is formulated as a two-stage game between the government and the central bank. In the first stage the government chooses the institutional design of the central bank. Monetary and ...
The Role of Government in the Credit Market
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
The paper assumes a government advantage in collecting income contingent payments and develop a proposal for a government loan program that is an integral part of the tax system. The focus is on administrative costs and ...
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. ...
Independence Before Conservatism: Transparency, Politics, and Central Bank Design
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
The problem of monetary policy delegation is formulated as a two-stage game between the government and the central bank. In the first stage the government chooses the institutional design of the central bank. Monetary and ...
Data Revisions, Gradualism, and US Inflation Pressure in Real Time
(Vanderbilt University, 2008)
Uncertainties associated with the informational content of real-time data and the impact of policy initiatives on expectations have been offered as rationales for gradualism in monetary policy. Our objective is to assess ...
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 ...
Government Leadership and Central Bank Design
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
This article investigates the impact on economic performance of the timing of moves in a policy game between the government and the central bank for a government with both distributional and stabilization objectives. It ...
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 ...
The Cost of Heterogeneity in a Monetary Union
(Vanderbilt University, 2001)
In this paper, we explore whether heterogeneity among union members could threaten the stability of the EMU. The types of heterogeneity we consider are (1) asymmetries in the transmission of monetary and fiscal policies, ...