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, output and inflation expectations in an economy. Therefore, the ability to predict its movement over time with relative …
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targets (inflation and output gap) are forward-looking variables in the new-Keynesian theory …
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This paper first reviews recent developments in exchange rate regimes, capital account liberalization, interest rate liberalization, and monetary policymaking in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It then observes that the PRC's monetary policy autonomy may have been reduced with falling...
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In a simple New Keynesian model, we derive a closed form solution for the inflation-gap persistence parameter as a … to inflation and the output gap, we show that the empirically observed changes in US inflation-gap persistence during the …’s (2008) view that inflation persistence should not be considered a structural parameter in the sense of Lucas. …
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The inertia found in econometric estimates of interest rate rules is a continuing puzzle. Many reasons for it have been offered, though unsatisfactorily, and the issue remains open. In the empirical literature on interest rate rules, inertia in setting interest rates is typically modelled by...
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be summarized by a simple policy rule of the type considered in the inflation-targeting literature. …
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This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries. We use quarterly data in the 1980.1–2005.4 period and exclude EMU countries. Our Taylor-rule specification focuses on the interactions of a new time-variant index of central bank independence with...
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for stabilizing not only inflation around target, but also acts to achieve an output gap close to zero. Furthermore, we …
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We examine whether and how selected central banks responded to episodes of financial stress over the last three decades. We employ a recently developed monetary-policy rule estimation methodology which allows for time-varying response coefficients and corrects for endogeneity. This flexible...
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