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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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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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The U.S. Federal Reserve responded to the great recession by reducing policy rates to the effective lower bound. In order to provide further monetary stimulus, they subsequently conducted large-scale asset purchases, quadrupling their balance sheet in the process. We assess the international...
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The Federal Reserve’s path for withdrawal of monetary stimulus and eventually increasing interest rates could have substantial repercussions for capital flows to emerging-market economies (EMEs). This paper examines the potential impact of U.S. monetary policy normalization on portfolio flows...
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We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because …
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The Bank of Canada Global Economy Model (BoC-GEM) is used to examine the effect of various types of discretionary fiscal policies on different regions of the globe. The BoC-GEM is a microfounded dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium global model with six regions, multiple sectors, and...
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containing information on real economic activity, inflation, interest rates and Divisia monetary aggregates produces the most …
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The authors investigate empirically the relationship between different aspects of inflation and relative price …. The authors show that expected inflation, which is captured by the menu cost model, is the aspect of inflation that is …. The authors, however, cannot completely discard inflation uncertainty (the signal extraction model), especially when using …
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Macroeconomists have traditionally ignored the behavior of temporary price markdowns (“sales”) by retailers. Although sales are common in the micro price data, they are assumed to be unrelated to macroeconomic phenomena and generally filtered out. We challenge this view. First, using the...
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Estimating potential output and the output gap - the difference between actual output and its potential - is important for the proper conduct of monetary policy. However, the measurement and interpretation of potential output, and hence the output gap, is fraught with uncertainty, since it is...
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