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Remittance inflows are driven by macroeconomic conditions in the home and the host economies, respectively. In this paper, we study the effect of U.S. monetary policy on remittance flows into economies in Latin American and the Caribbean. The role of Fed policy for remittances has not yet been...
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This paper revisits the trade-of between central bank independence and conservatism using a New Keynesian model with uncertainty about the central banker's output gap target. It is shown that when this uncertainty is high, the trade-of no longer holds. In this case, the optimal combination...
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.The cost channel makes monetary policy less effective in combatting inflation, but it is shown that the optimal response to the …
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In light of the recent financial and real economic crisis, it seems clear that macroeconomists need to better account for the influence of financial markets. This paper explores the consequences of treating the interaction between different financial markets, monetary policy, and the real...
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monetary policy objective. We find that for the price of a strong hike in inflation a severe economic recession can be avoided …
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stabilizing shocks increases, when there is a gap in the inflation differential due to a relative shock, an idiosyncratic shock or …
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economies in terms of both output and inflation. In the case of a monetary union, we find that stabilisation of output in the … country where the crisis originated and a positive inflation rate in the other country. …
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This paper analyses the main drivers of sovereign bond spreads in a globalised world. Specifically, we account for international spillovers of bond spreads by adding an additional driver, namely, financial markets, and allowing interactions across countries and markets. We contribute to the VAR...
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In this paper we systematically evaluate how central banks respond to inflation deviations from target. We present a … stylized New Keynesian model in which agents' inflation expectations are sensitive to inflation deviations from target. To (re …-)establish credibility, optimal monetary policy under discretion is shown to set higher interest rates today if average inflation exceeded …
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that favorably affects the inflation-output stabilization trade-off. …
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