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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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nominal policy interest rate and the CPI inflation rate decline during housing booms and rise as house prices fall. These … demonstrate that stronger policy responses to inflation amplify housing-market boom-bust cycles. Also, higher loan-to-value ratios … stability ; Inflation targets …
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There appears to be a disconnect between the importance of the zero bound on nominal interest rates in the real-world and predictions from quantitative DSGE models. Recent economic events have reinforced the relevance of the zero bound for monetary policy whereas quantitative models suggest that...
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this phenomenon, which has been observed for several other countries, may be due to a change in the behaviour of inflation …. Specifically, moving from a high to a low-inflation environment has reduced the expected persistence of cost changes and, by … policy has responded more aggressively to inflation deviations over the low pass-through period relative to the high pass …
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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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Using Bayesian methods, we estimate a small open economy model in which consumers face limits to credit determined by the value of their housing stock. The purpose of this paper is to quantify the role of collateralized household debt in the Canadian business cycle. Our findings show that the...
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This paper investigates the effects of monetary policy on the risk-taking behavior of fixed-income mutual funds in Canada. We consider different measures of the stance of monetary policy and investigate active variation in mutual funds’ risk exposure in response to monetary policy. We find...
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In this paper, we provide empirical evidence on the factors that motivated emerging economies to change their capital outflow controls in recent decades. Liberalization of capital outflow controls can allow emerging-market economies (EMEs) to reduce net capital inflow (NKI) pressures, but may...
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The days when secrecy and opacity were the bywords of central banking are gone. The advent of inflation targeting in …
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