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Inflationary Finance in a Simple Voting Model
(Department of Economics, 2001)
This paper is an attempt at answering the somewhat counterfactual question: if monetary policy was to be decided in the arena of public voting (that is not by independent central banks), then what kind of monetary policies ...
Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
(Department of Economics, 2004)
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of children on the labor supply of women using panel data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). We examine the effect of children both prior to ...
On the Use of the Inflation Tax when Non-Distortionary Taxes are Available
(Department of Economics, 2000)
If a inflation tax base has been created via a fixed reserve requirement, will a benevolent government use the inflation tax as a (partial) source of revenue even though a non-distortionary revenue source is available? ...