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About: Federal Reserve System is a other organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Monetary policy & Inflation. The organization has 2373 authors who have published 10301 publications receiving 511979 citations.
Topics: Monetary policy, Inflation, Interest rate, Market liquidity, Debt
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret the financial accelerator as resulting from endogenous changes over the business cycle in the agency costs of lending, and show that borrowers facing high agency costs should receive a relatively lower share of credit extended (the flight to quality) and hence should account for a proportionally greater part of the decline in economic activity.
Abstract: Adverse shocks to the economy may be amplified by worsening credit-market conditions-- the financial 'accelerator'. Theoretically, we interpret the financial accelerator as resulting from endogenous changes over the business cycle in the agency costs of lending. An implication of the theory is that, at the onset of a recession, borrowers facing high agency costs should receive a relatively lower share of credit extended (the flight to quality) and hence should account for a proportionally greater part of the decline in economic activity. We review the evidence for these predictions and present new evidence drawn from a panel of large and small manufacturing firms.
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TL;DR: In this paper, monetary and fiscal policy interactions are studied in a stochastic maximizing model, where policy is either passive or active depending on its responsiveness to government debt shocks, and the existence and uniqueness of equilibria depend on two policy parameters.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors modify a textbook IS-UI model to permit a more balanced treatment of money and credit, and show that credit supply and demand shocks have independent effects on aggregate demand; the nature of the monetary transmission mechanism is also somewhat different.
Abstract: Standard models of aggregate demand treat money and credit asymmetrically; money is given a special status, while loans, bonds, and other debt instruments are lumped together in a "bond market" and suppressed by Walras' Law. This makes bank liabilities central to the monetary transmission mechanism, while giving no role to bank assets. We show how to modify a textbook IS-UI model so as to permit a more balanced treatment. As in Tobin (1969) and Brunner-Meltzer (1972), the key assumption is that loans and bonds are imperfect substitutes. In the modified model, credit supply and demand shocks have independent effects on aggregate demand; the nature of the monetary transmission mechanism is also somewhat different. The main policy implication is that the relative value of money and credit as policy indicators depends on the variances of shocks to money and credit demand. We present some evidence that money-demand shocks have become more important relative to credit-demand shocks during the 1980s.
1,883 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, the unconditional expectation of average household utility is expressed in terms of the unconditional variances of the output gap, price inflation, and wage inflation, where the model exhibits a tradeoff in stabilizing output gap and price inflation.
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TL;DR: The authors found that a surge in the use of information technology capital and faster efficiency gains in the production of computers account for about two-thirds of the speed-up in productivity growth between the first and second halves of the 1990s.
Abstract: The growth of U.S. labor productivity rebounded in the second half of the 1990s, after nearly a quarter century of sluggish gains. We assess the contribution of information technology to this rebound, using the same neoclassical framework as in our earlier work. We find that a surge in the use of information technology capital and faster efficiency gains in the production of computers account for about two-thirds of the speed-up in productivity growth between the first and second halves of the 1990s. Thus, to answer the question posed in the title of the paper, information technology largely is the story.
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Ross Levine | 122 | 398 | 108067 |
Francis X. Diebold | 110 | 368 | 74723 |
Kenneth Rogoff | 107 | 390 | 75971 |
Allen N. Berger | 106 | 382 | 65596 |
Frederic S. Mishkin | 100 | 372 | 34898 |
Thomas J. Sargent | 96 | 370 | 39224 |
Ben S. Bernanke | 96 | 446 | 76378 |
Stijn Claessens | 96 | 462 | 42743 |
Andrew K. Rose | 88 | 374 | 42605 |
Martin Eichenbaum | 87 | 234 | 37611 |
Lawrence J. Christiano | 85 | 253 | 37734 |
Jie Yang | 78 | 532 | 20004 |
James P. Smith | 78 | 372 | 23013 |
Glenn D. Rudebusch | 73 | 226 | 22035 |
Edward C. Prescott | 72 | 235 | 55508 |