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The marginal income tax rate schedule from 1930 to 1990
Discussion Paper
Real exchange rates under the gold standard
Purchasing power parity is one of the most important equilibrium conditions in international macroeconomics. Empirically, it is also one of the most hotly contested. Numerous recent studies, for example, have sought to determine the validity of purchasing power parity using data from the post-Bretton-Woods float and have reached different conclusions. We assert that most such studies are flawed for two reasons. First, the post-1973 data contain, by definition, only a very limited amount of the low-frequency information relevant for examination of long-run parity. Second, the dynamic ...
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The effect of changes in reserve requirements on investment and GNP
This paper provides evidence on the importance of the credit channel in the transmission of monetary policy. Changes in reserve requirements are used to measure "credit shocks." Reserve requirement changes are often made for regulatory reasons, and hence provide a more exogenous measure of credit shocks than the measures used in previous tests. To distinguish between the "money" and "credit" channels, the significance of the reserve requirements variable is studied in an empirical model that includes other monetary aggregates (either the monetary base or M1). We find that an increase in ...
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The role of the discount rate in monetary policy
Journal Article
Stock market dispersion and business cycles
Journal Article
Overstated effects from tax reform?
Working Paper
Sectoral shifts in interwar Britain
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Cointegration: how short is the long run?