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inflation and output dynamics in the United States. In particular, I find that real money balance effects are quantitatively …
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Canada played an important role in the postwar establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), yet it was also the first major member to challenge the orthodoxy of the BrettonWoods par value system by abandoning it in 1950 in favour of a floating, market-determined exchange rate....
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monetary order, based on inflation targets and a flexible exchange rate; (ii) a North American monetary union; (iii) a Canadian …
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incorporate exchange rate movements explicitly into their policy rule. With a higher degree of intrinsic inflation persistence …, the central bank of New Zealand seems less concerned about future inflation pressure induced by current exchange rate … movements. In addition, the structure of the shocks driving inflation and output variations in New Zealand is such that it may …
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This paper examines the interaction between monetary policy and macroprudential policy and whether policy makers should respond to financial imbalances. To address this issue, we build a dynamic general equilibrium model that features financial market frictions and financial shocks as well as...
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This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and economic cycles and examines its interaction with monetary policy. The framework used is a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with banks and bank capital, in which...
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We examine the relative ability of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price level targeting (PLT) monetary policy … rules to minimize both inflation variability and business cycle fluctuations in Canada for shocks that have important … persistent cost-push pressures in the economy leading to a significant deterioration in the inflation – output gap trade …
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The authors investigate the implications of house-price bubbles for the optimal inflation-target horizon using a …, given the distribution of shocks and inflation persistence over the past 25 years, the optimal target horizon for Canada … inception of the inflation-targeting regime. The authors' results also suggest that it may be appropriate to take a longer view …
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Since the work of Doepke and Schneider (2006a) and Meh and Terajima (2008), we know that inflation causes major … same country. Two types of monetary policy, inflation targeting (IT) and price level targeting (PT), have very different …
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