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Frank Smets · Raf Wouters

A sticky-price, sticky-wage dynamic general equilibrium model of the euro area, with habit formation, investment adjustment costs and variable capacity utilisation, is estimated by Bayesian methods on …

Emil Holst Partsch · Ivan Petrella · Emiliano Santoro

Consumer durables account for a disproportionately large share of household expenditure fluctuations despite their small share of total private consumption. Two stylized facts motivate the paper: (1) …

Gu Jin · Tao Zhu

This paper applies a multiple-denomination commodity money model — building on Lee, Wallace, and Zhu (2005) — to coinage episodes in late medieval England, and derives two main findings. Shortages of …

David Altig · Lawrence J. Christiano · Martin Eichenbaum · Jesper Lindé

Estimated New Keynesian models reconcile inertial inflation with Calvo pricing only by forcing firms to re-optimise prices once every two years or more, which micro price data contradict. Making …

Florin O. Bilbiie

THANK, a tractable heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model built around a single statistic for the cyclicality of income inequality, shows that the conditions needed for HANK-style amplification of …

Narayana R. Kocherlakota

This 1998 *Journal of Economic Theory* paper by Narayana Kocherlakota asks what money technologically does by comparing it against an alternative record-keeping technology the paper calls memory: …

J. R. Hicks

This paper, written within a year of the publication of Keynes's General Theory, asks how much of Keynes's theory is genuinely new by building a small formal model of the "classical" theory of income …

Thomas Drechsel

This paper combines a hand-collected archival data set of over 800 personal interactions between U.S. Presidents and Federal Reserve officials from 1933 to 2016 with a narrative structural VAR to …

Frank Smets · Rafael Wouters

A New Neoclassical Synthesis model of the US economy with seven structural shocks and a full set of real and nominal frictions is estimated on seven quarterly series by Bayesian methods, and shown to …

Alisdair McKay · Emi Nakamura · Jón Steinsson

This paper shows that the standard New Keynesian prediction that forward guidance about interest rates far in the future is at least as powerful as guidance about current rates -- and grows …