Oxford Economic Papers Advance Access originally published online on May 15, 2007
Oxford Economic Papers 2008 60(1):122-142; doi:10.1093/oep/gpm010
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The liquidity effect in a flexible-price monetary model
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, No. 21 Hsu-Chow Rd. Taipei, Taiwan; e-mail: sschen@ntu.edu.tw
JEL classifications:: E52, E31
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This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic policy shocks in a flexible-price dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with money. Rather than adopting a money supply rule, monetary policy is modelled as a central bank using a simple interest rate rule (Taylor rule). Without assuming price stickiness or frictions in financial markets, this model is found to account for liquidity effects, generate higher persistence in output and inflation, and capture the positive unconditional cross-correlations relating inflation and output.