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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Other•St Louis, Missouri, United States•
About: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is a other organization based out in St Louis, Missouri, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Inflation. The organization has 203 authors who have published 1650 publications receiving 46084 citations.
Topics: Monetary policy, Inflation, Interest rate, Business cycle, Debt
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the effect of countercyclical policies intended to shorten recessions and speed recoveries and found that expansionary monetary policy at the national level helps to stimulate the exit of individual states from recession.
Abstract: The nature of the business cycle appears to have changed. Prior to the 1990s, recoveries from recessions were quick and steep; after the past three recessions, however, recoveries were weak and prolonged. We consider the effect of a number of countercyclical policies intended to shorten recessions and speed recoveries. Our innovation is to analyze the duration of the recoveries of various U.S. states, which gives us a cross-section of both state- and national-level policies. Because we study multiple recessions for the same state and multiple states for the same recession, we can control for differences in the economic conditions preceding recessions and the causes of the recessions when evaluating various policies. We find that expansionary monetary policy at the national level helps to stimulate the exit of individual states from recession. We also find certain factors extend expected recovery times: other states in the same region suffering from recession around the same time, the length of the preceding recession, and shocks to oil prices at the peak.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of a benevolent government that needs to finance the provision of a public good with distortionary taxes and cannot commit to policies beyond the current period.
Abstract: Consider the problem of a benevolent government that needs to finance the provision of a public good with distortionary taxes and cannot commit to policies beyond the current period. In such a case, public expenditure is inefficiently low. If the government further loses the ability to set tax rates before production in the period takes place, then it will not internalize how its policy choices distort current factor markets. Thus, to counterbalance the costs of future distortions, it increases public good provision. For a calibrated economy, removing within-period commitment implies a welfare gain worth half-a-percent of yearly consumption. A similar gain can be obtained, if instead, capital depreciation were allowed to be fully deducted from taxable income.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reassess convergence of income across countries and its determinants, and find that the ergodic distribution of output per worker features multiple modes and that productivity in the long run is unimodal.
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TL;DR: In this article, the use of judgment or "add-factors" in forecasting may disturb the set of equilibrium outcomes when agents learn using recursive methods, and they isolate conditions under which new phenomena, which they call exuberance equilibria, can exist in a standard self-referential environment.
Abstract: We study how the use of judgment or "add-factors" in forecasting may disturb the set of equilibrium outcomes when agents learn using recursive methods. We isolate conditions under which new phenomena, which we call exuberance equilibria, can exist in a standard self-referential environment. Local indeterminacy is not a requirement for existence. We construct a simple asset pricing example and find that exuberance equilibria, when they exist, can be extremely volatile relative to fundamental equilibria.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors model side payments in a competitive credit-card market and show that price discrimination without side payments is Pareto preferred because of the costliness of the card network, unless banks have other motives such as purchasing options on future borrowing by convenience users.
Abstract: We model side payments in a competitive credit-card market. If competitive retailers charge a single (higher) price to cover the cost of accepting cards, banks must subsidize convenience users to prevent them from defecting to merchants who do not accept cards. The side payments will be financed by card users who roll over balances at interest if their subjective discount rates are high enough. Despite the feasibility of cross subsidies among cardholders, price discrimination without side payments is Pareto preferred because of the costliness of the card network--unless banks have other motives, such as purchasing options on future borrowing by convenience users.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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William Easterly | 93 | 253 | 49657 |
David K. Levine | 66 | 358 | 22455 |
Lucio Sarno | 65 | 218 | 17418 |
Paul W. Wilson | 53 | 147 | 18562 |
Christopher J. Neely | 47 | 201 | 8438 |
Edward Nelson | 46 | 143 | 7819 |
David C. Wheelock | 40 | 173 | 6125 |
Michele Boldrin | 40 | 154 | 8365 |
Massimo Guidolin | 36 | 230 | 5640 |
Daniel L. Thornton | 36 | 230 | 5064 |
Jeremy M. Piger | 34 | 98 | 5997 |
Howard J. Wall | 34 | 136 | 4488 |
Michael T. Owyang | 34 | 204 | 3890 |
Christopher Otrok | 34 | 98 | 7601 |
Ping Wang | 33 | 241 | 4263 |