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rate as the real policy rate consistent with output at its potential level and inflation equal to target after the effects … rate below neutral will be required to maintain inflation sustainably at target. …
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markets react to inflation by revaluing their exchange rates by 10 per cent. This affects the outlook for commodities only …
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This report provides a detailed technical description of an updated version of the Terms-of-Trade Economic Model (ToTEM II), which replaced ToTEM (Murchison and Rennison 2006) in June 2011 as the Bank of Canada’s quarterly projection model for Canada. ToTEM has been improved along a number of...
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This paper studies the welfare costs and the redistributive effects of inflation in the presence of idiosyncratic … money demand and the distribution of money holdings across households, and study the effects of inflation under the implied … inflation are on average 40% smaller compared to a complete markets, representative agent economy, and that inflation induces …
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This paper applies a static model of an interest rate corridor to the Canadian data, and estimates the aggregate demand for central-bank settlement balances in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS). The empirical specification controls for various calendar effects that have been shown to cause...
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This paper compares price-level-path targeting (PT) with inflation targeting (IT) in a sticky-price, dynamic, general …
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Financial innovations and the removal of the reserve requirements in the early 1990s have made the distinction between demand and notice deposits arbitrary. This classification issue has affected those narrow monetary aggregates (gross and net M1) that rely on a proper distinction for their...
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The authors provide a detailed technical description of the Terms-of-Trade Economic Model (ToTEM), which replaced the Quarterly Projection Model (QPM) in December 2005 as the Bank's principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy. ToTEM is an open-economy, dynamic...
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This paper studies the long run welfare costs of inflation in a micro-founded model with trading frictions and costly … agent model, the welfare costs of inflation are significantly smaller due to distributional effects of inflation. The … welfare cost of increasing inflation from 0% to 10% is 0.62% of income for the U.S. economy and 0.20% of income for the …
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interaction affects the allocation and welfare. Regarding how banking affects the welfare costs of inflation: First, we find that …, with banking, inflation generates smaller welfare costs. Second, we show that, lowering inflation improves welfare not just … nature of intermediation cost is critical for accurately assessing the welfare gain of lowering the inflation target …
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