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An Analysis Of Uk Swap Yields, Tanweer Akram, Khawaja Mamun Dec 2022

An Analysis Of Uk Swap Yields, Tanweer Akram, Khawaja Mamun

WCBT Working Papers

John Maynard Keynes argued that the central bank influences the long-term interest rate through the effect of its policy rate on the short-term interest rate. However, Keynes’s claim was confined to the behavior of the long-term government bond yield. This paper investigates whether Keynes’s claim holds for the yields of spread products and over-the-counter financial derivatives by econometrically modeling the dynamics of the pound sterling–denominated longterm interest rate swap yield. It uses the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) modeling approach to examine the relationship between the month-over-month changes in the short-term swap yield and the month-over-month change in the long-term …


Introducing Students To The Competing Schools Of Thought In Intermediate Macroeconomics, Harlan M. Smith Ii Mar 2013

Introducing Students To The Competing Schools Of Thought In Intermediate Macroeconomics, Harlan M. Smith Ii

Harlan M. Smith

The article discusses how the intermediate macroeconomics instructor can introduce students to ways of old and new Keynesians and classical theorists addressed the question on why output and employment fluctuate. Keynesian macroeconomics characterizes a school of thought developed around two central prepositions. New Keynesians develop alternative ways of explaining short-run movements in output and employment in the early 1970's. All individuals maximize utility, firm maximizes profits. Recently, new classicals developed an alternative approach in explaining short-run fluctuation in employment and output by redefining the concept of the short run.


2013-2 The Fisher Relation In The Great Depression And The Great Recession, David Laidler Jan 2013

2013-2 The Fisher Relation In The Great Depression And The Great Recession, David Laidler

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


Monetary Policy And New-Keynesian Macroeconomics, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay Jan 2011

Monetary Policy And New-Keynesian Macroeconomics, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

New-Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models are important tools for analyzing modern monetary economics and policy. The genre of the New-Keynesian DSGE model is divided into two broad categories. These are, (i) the sticky price New-Keynesian DSGE model and (ii) the sticky information New-Keynesian DSGE model. My dissertation is a contribution to this rapidly growing literature, where I have analyzed some important issues of modern monetary economics and policy through the New-Keynesian DSGE models.


Innovation, Markets, And Evolution, Mitch Green Jun 2010

Innovation, Markets, And Evolution, Mitch Green

Economics Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper approaches innovation from an evolutionary perspective. Literature spanning a broad range of traditions in economics is considered, to include Institutionalist, Schumpeterian, post-Keynesian, and growth theorists. Key systemic changes are examined in the context of prevailing technological and social institutions. It is argued that expectation-fixing effects such as path-dependence in investment and innovation provide structure to a social network of market institutions that seek to validate money contracts. The institution of money is considered as a center of power in the system and affects the course of innovation. Money as the unit of account becomes the object of …


Thirlwall's Law And Krugman's 45-Degree Rule: Mathematically Identical, Mutually Exclusive, Karl Garbacik Jun 2010

Thirlwall's Law And Krugman's 45-Degree Rule: Mathematically Identical, Mutually Exclusive, Karl Garbacik

Economics Undergraduate Honors Theses

Thirlwall's Law and the 45-degree rule, originally formulated by Krugman, are radically different interpretations of the same statistical regularity. This statistical regularity is that a country's long-run growth rate will approximate to the ratio of that country's export growth to its import elasticity of demand. Thirlwall's Law falls under a Post-Keynesian framework which is primarily a demand-side model. The 45-degree rule relies on a supply-side interpretation, a result of its neoclassical origins. This thesis seeks to answer two questions. The first is, are the members of the Post-Keynesian and neoclassical communities working on each of these theories aware of the …


2010-1 The Monetary Economy And The Economic Crisis, David Laidler Jan 2010

2010-1 The Monetary Economy And The Economic Crisis, David Laidler

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


Influencing Keynes: The Intellectual Origins Of The General Theory, Steven Kates Jan 2010

Influencing Keynes: The Intellectual Origins Of The General Theory, Steven Kates

Steven Kates

Richard Kahn aside, from which other economist did Keynes derive even a single idea found in the General Theory? As a reading of almost the entire literature on the transition from the Treatise on Money will show, there is no economist to whom Keynes gave the slightest credit as an influence on the arguments found in the text nor are such influences an important part of the subsequent literature. Yet for all that, Keynes owed major debts to a number of economists from whose works he took significant components without acknowledgment. His taking the words “supply creates its own demand” …


How Are Inflation Expectations Formed By Consumers, Economists And The Financial Market?, Shaun Khubchandani Jan 2010

How Are Inflation Expectations Formed By Consumers, Economists And The Financial Market?, Shaun Khubchandani

CMC Senior Theses

Inflation expectations have been of great interest to economists because they predict how agents in an economy set prices and react to changes in various macroeconomic variables. The existence of Keynesian liquidity traps in Japan and the United States have helped emphasize the importance of inflation expectations, especially when monetary policy is rendered ineffective and there is almost perfect substitutability between money and bonds due to the zero bound condition of interest rates. Given the canonical theories of rational and adaptive expectations, this paper will use a simple model of the economy to measure the effect of various macroeconomic variables …


2006-3 Axel Leijonhufvud And The Quest For Micro-Foundations -- Some Reflections, David Laidler Jan 2006

2006-3 Axel Leijonhufvud And The Quest For Micro-Foundations -- Some Reflections, David Laidler

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2005-02 Keynes And The Birth Of Modern Macroeconomics, David Laidler Jan 2005

2005-02 Keynes And The Birth Of Modern Macroeconomics, David Laidler

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


Introducing Students To The Competing Schools Of Thought In Intermediate Macroeconomics, Harlan M. Smith Ii Jul 1997

Introducing Students To The Competing Schools Of Thought In Intermediate Macroeconomics, Harlan M. Smith Ii

Economics Faculty Research

The article discusses how the intermediate macroeconomics instructor can introduce students to ways of old and new Keynesians and classical theorists addressed the question on why output and employment fluctuate. Keynesian macroeconomics characterizes a school of thought developed around two central prepositions. New Keynesians develop alternative ways of explaining short-run movements in output and employment in the early 1970's. All individuals maximize utility, firm maximizes profits. Recently, new classicals developed an alternative approach in explaining short-run fluctuation in employment and output by redefining the concept of the short run.