The three major findings of this paper are the following: (1) Programs of monetary restraint tend to result in higher real interest rates because when they are initially implemented, they result in surprise monetary stringency. The magnitude of negative money surprises in the second quarter of 1981 is estimated to have added two to three percentage points to both real and nominal interest rates. (2) An increase in the fiscal deficit can raise the real rate if it raises the ratio of total borrowing to gross national product (GNP), but the usual effect of a larger ratio of the budget deficit to GNP is to lower the real rate. This apparent paradox is caused by the fact that the ratio of total borrowing to GNP typically moves inversely with res...
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Whereas the seventies' had been characterized by major changes in the relative prices of goods and s...
The rise in long term real interest rates that occured in the eighties is often ascribed to either a...
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This paper examines the implications of pursuing monetary targets for the behavior of interest rates...
Money and inflation : a few teachings of USA's experience during the ten last years by - Based on di...
Following an earlier paper, I investigate an economy where nominal interest rates are rigid, but agg...
U.S. inflation has experienced a great moderation in the last two decades. This paper examines the f...
The paper investigates selected aspects of the macroeconomic performance of countries that undertook...
This article is based on structural VAR methodology, considering short term restrictions imposed by ...
Interest rates, deflated by the présent and forecast price changes, are very high, compared with the...
The rise in long term real interest rate is often ascribed to rising public deficits. This political...
Whereas the seventies' had been characterized by major changes in the relative prices of goods and s...
The rise in long term real interest rates that occured in the eighties is often ascribed to either a...
Why Do Real Interest Rates Remain High? - The world economy is beginning the new decade with real in...
Risk Premium and Money Policy - During the period late 1988 to the Gulf crisis, interest rate trends...
By mid-1986, the buoyant recovery following the 1982 recession had slowed down, marking the end of t...
Financing the economy with high real interest rates The possible causes of high real interest rates...
With the easing of monetary policy from summer 1982 onwards, the American economy bounced back to it...
This paper examines the implications of pursuing monetary targets for the behavior of interest rates...
Money and inflation : a few teachings of USA's experience during the ten last years by - Based on di...
Following an earlier paper, I investigate an economy where nominal interest rates are rigid, but agg...
U.S. inflation has experienced a great moderation in the last two decades. This paper examines the f...
The paper investigates selected aspects of the macroeconomic performance of countries that undertook...
This article is based on structural VAR methodology, considering short term restrictions imposed by ...
Interest rates, deflated by the présent and forecast price changes, are very high, compared with the...