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This paper investigates the question of whether a transition to a low-inflation environment, induced by a shift in … from previous empirical work in its focus on the identification of changes in the inflation environment and its use of a …, supports the hypothesis that exchange rate pass-through declines with a shift to a low-inflation environment brought about by a …
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dollars to prices of resource-based commodities, and inflation targeting. This paper explores various aspects of these … phenomena. It uses standard empirical models, and an investigation of the different approaches to inflation targeting in the … helpful to macroeconomic stability. It appears that the most effective monetary policy approach focuses on domestic inflation …
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What drives countercyclical volatility? A large literature has documented that many economic variables are more disperse in recessions, but this could either occur because shocks get bigger or because firms respond more to shocks which are the same size. Existing evidence that the dispersion of...
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Using micro price data across US cities, we provide evidence that both the volatility and persistence of deviations from the law of one price (LOP) are positively correlated with the distance between cities. A standard, two-city, equilibrium model with time-varying technology under homogeneous...
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The paper tests the Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis (rapid economic growth is accompanied by real exchange rate appreciation because of differential productivity growth between tradable and nontradable sectors) using data of the APEC economies. Japan, Korea, Taiwan and, to a lesser extent, Hong...
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an inflation surprise and the nominal exchange rate can tell us something about how monetary policy is conducted …. Specifically, we show that 'bad news' about inflation -- that it is higher than expected -- can be 'good news' for the nominal … exchange rate -- that it appreciates on this news -- if the central bank has an inflation target that it implements with a …
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Volatile and persistent real exchange rates are observed not only in aggregate series but also in the individual good level data. Kehoe and Midrigan (2007) recently showed that, under a standard assumption on nominal price stickiness, empirical frequencies of micro price adjustment cannot...
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The authors address empirically the implications of structural breaks in the variance-covariance matrix of inflation …) framework as the response of domestic inflation to an impulse in import price inflation. This approach allows them to examine …
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The microdata underlying U.S. import and export price indexes exhibit frequent product turnover and highly rigid prices. As a consequence, 40% of products are replaced before a single price change is observed and 70% are replaced after two price changes or less. An aggregate price index that...
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