Questions from Macroeconomics


Q: Go to the St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED database, and

Go to the St. Louis Federal Reserve FRED database, and find data on corporate net worth of nonfinancial businesses (TNWMVBSNNCB), private domestic investment (GPDIC1), and a measure of financial frict...

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Q: Consider the efficiency-wage model analyzed in equations (11.

Consider the efficiency-wage model analyzed in equations (11.12) (11.17). Suppose, however, that fraction f of workers belong to unions that are able to obtain a wage that exceeds the nonunion wage by...

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Q: Suppose there are two sectors. Jobs in the primary sector pay

Suppose there are two sectors. Jobs in the primary sector pay wp; jobs in the secondary sector pay ws. Each worker decides which sector to be in. All workers who choose the secondary sector obtain a j...

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Q: Consider the Taylor model. Suppose, however, that every other

Consider the Taylor model. Suppose, however, that every other period all the firms set their prices for that period and the next. That is, in period t prices are set for t and t +1; in t +1, no prices...

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Q: Consider the Taylor model with the money stock white noise rather than

Consider the Taylor model with the money stock white noise rather than a random walk; that is, mt =εt, where εt is serially uncorrelated. Solve the model using the method of undetermined coefficients....

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Q: Repeat Problem 7.4 using lag operators. Data

Repeat Problem 7.4 using lag operators. Data from Problem 7.4: Consider the Taylor model with the money stock white noise rather than a random walk; that is, mt =εt, where εt is serially uncorrelate...

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Q: Consider the experiment described at the beginning of Section 7.4

Consider the experiment described at the beginning of Section 7.4. Specifically, a Calvo economy is initially in long-run equilibrium with all prices equal to m, which we normalize to zero. In period...

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Q: Consider an economy like that of the Caplin Spulber model. Suppose

Consider an economy like that of the Caplin Spulber model. Suppose, however, that m can either rise or fall, and that firms therefore follow a simple two-sided Ss policy: if pi − p∗ t reaches either S...

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Q: Consider a continuous-time version of the Taylor model, so

Consider a continuous-time version of the Taylor model, so that p(t)=(1/T )T τ=0 x(t−τ)dτ, where T is the interval between each firm’s price changes and x(t−τ) is the price set by firms that set their...

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Q: Consider the new Keynesian Phillips curve with indexation, equation (7

Consider the new Keynesian Phillips curve with indexation, equation (7.76), under the assumptions of perfect foresight and β=1, together with our usual aggregate demand equation, yt =mt −pt. (a) Expre...

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