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The days when secrecy and opacity were the bywords of central banking are gone. The advent of inflation targeting in the early 1990s acted as the catalyst for enhanced transparency and communications in the conduct of monetary policy. In the wake of the 2007-09 global financial crisis, this...
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This paper uses Tobit models and data for union contracts to examine the extent of downward nominal-wage rigidity in Canada. To be consistent with important stylized facts, the models allow the variance of the notional wage-change distribution to be time-varying and test for menu-cost effects....
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credibility, changes in the slope of the Phillips curve, and changes in the degree of income stabilization from automatic fiscal … results are with respect to credibility. When monetary credibility increases, the central bank can attain more stable output … and inflation. But increasing credibility is a double-edged sword. To reap its benefits, the central bank must, in general …
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credibility. …
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by observing the policy instrument or inflation outcomes. Measuring credibility as the distance between the perceived … target and the actual target, an increase in credibility is beneficial to the central bank because it brings the policy …-order approximation for reasonable degrees of initial credibility, and may actually be preferable if agents cannot determine the exact …
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some parameterizations, there is a low credibility equilibrium (with high expectation of a reset) associated with high …
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attaining credibility for their policy objectives. These steps have anchored inflation expectations to the target of the … between credibility and optimal probing. I find that, for plausible parameter values, the optimal amount of probing is small … and varies little with credibility. Only for low levels of credibility or unrealistically large levels of uncertainty or …
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credibility. Vestin (2006) shows that when the monetary authority cannot commit to future policy, price-level targeting yields … higher welfare than inflation targeting. We revisit this issue by introducing imperfect credibility, which is modeled as …-level targeting are small. A welfare loss occurs, if imperfect credibility is highly persistent. …
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The author provides an overview of the 1975–78 Anti-Inflation Program (AIP), in a background document prepared for a seminar organized by the Bank of Canada to mark the AIP's 30th anniversary. After reviewing Canada's experience with, and policy response to, inflation in the decade preceding...
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credibility. Vestin (2006) shows that when the monetary authority cannot commit to future policy, price-level targeting yields … higher welfare than inflation targeting. We revisit this issue by introducing imperfect credibility, which is modeled as …
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