Does trade openness matter for aggregate instability?
In: Journal of economic dynamics & control, Band 29, Heft 7, S. 1165-1192
ISSN: 0165-1889
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In: Journal of economic dynamics & control, Band 29, Heft 7, S. 1165-1192
ISSN: 0165-1889
In: Journal of monetary economics, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 871-887
In this paper we determine the optimal combination of taxes on money, consumption and income in transaction technology models. We show that the optimal policy does not tax money, regardless of whether the government can use the income tax, the consumption tax, or the two taxes jointly. These results are at odds with recent literature. We argue that the reason for this divergence is an inappropriate specification of the transaction technology adopted in the literature.
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 135
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Interbank money markets have been subject to substantial impairments in the recent decade, such as a decline in unsecured lending and substantial increases in haircuts on posted collateral. This paper seeks to understand the implications of these developments for the broader economy and monetary policy. To that end, we develop a novel general equilibrium model featuring heterogeneous banks, interbank markets for both secured and unsecured credit, and a central bank. The model features a number of occasionally binding constraints. The interactions between these constraints - in particular leverage and liquidity constraints - are key in determining macroeconomic outcomes. We find that both secured and unsecured money market frictions force banks to either divert resources into unproductive but liquid assets or to de-lever, which leads to less lending and output. If the liquidity constraint is very tight, the leverage constraint may turn slack. In this case, there are large declines in lending and output. We show how central bank policies which increase the size of the central bank balance sheet can attenuate this decline.
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 2239 (2019); ISBN 978-92-899-3501-2
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w25319
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13335
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In: University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2018-79
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How should monetary policy respond to changes in financial conditions? In this paper we consider a simple model where firms are subject to idiosyncratic shocks which may force them to default on their debt. Firms' assets and liabilities are denominated in nominal terms and predetermined when shocks occur. Monetary policy can therefore affect the real value of funds used to finance production. Furthermore, policy affects the loan and deposit rates. In our model, allowing for short-term inflation volatility in response to exogenous shocks can be optimal; the optimal response to adverse financial shocks is to lower interest rates, if not at the zero bound, and to engineer a short period of controlled inflation; the Taylor rule may implement allocations that have opposite cyclical properties to the optimal ones.
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In: ECB Working Paper No. 1123
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP17041
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In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Band 118, S. 2-14