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Policy Uncertainty and Informational Monopolies: The Case of Monetary Policy

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  • Jones, L.E.
  • Manuelli, R.E

Abstract

In this paper we have presented a model in which perfectly enticipated inflation is superneutral: if the variance of the money (or the growth rate of the money supply in the dynamic interpretation) supply is zero, the real equilibrium is independent of the mean of the money supply.

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Paper provided by Wisconsin Madison - Social Systems in its series Working papers with number 9715.

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Length: 60 pages
Date of creation: 1997
Handle: RePEc:att:wimass:9715
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON, SOCIAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE(S.S.R.I.), MADISON WISCONSIN 53706 U.S.A.

Keywords: ECONOMIC MODELS ; INFLATION ; MONETARY POLICY;

Find related papers by JEL classification:

  • E40 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - General
  • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System

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Cited by:

  1. Derek Laing & Victor E. Li & Ping Wang, 1998. "Inflation and economic activity in a multiple matching model of money," Working Papers 1998-018, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
  2. Derek Laing & Victor E. Li & Ping Wang, 2000. "Inflation, trade frictions, and productive activity in a multiple-matching model of money," FRB Atlanta Working Paper 2000-28, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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