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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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In this paper, the authors propose a measure of underlying inflation for Canada obtained from estimating a monthly … distort the signal in many other measures of underlying inflation, and appears to capture price movements that are indicative … measures of underlying inflation monitored by the Bank of Canada. …
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inflation. The analysis extends Elwood’s (1998) framework by incorporating in the model an inflation-threshold process that can …, depending on the level of inflation: negative shocks are more detrimental when inflation is high, and positive shocks are more … persistent when inflation is low. …
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The inflation targeting (IT) regime is 17 years old. With practice of IT now in more than 21 countries, there is enough … evidence gathered to take stock of the IT experience. In this paper, we analyze the inflation record of IT central banks. We … extend the work of Albagli and Schmidt-Hebbel (2004) by looking at a broad range of factors that can influence inflation …
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bound is relatively low, especially if the inflation target established for the monetary authority is 2 per cent or more … rate for lower inflation targets. Various caveats apply to drawing conclusions for Canada from the papers we surveyed …
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Inflation targeting (IT) had originally been introduced as a device to bring inflation down and stabilize it at low … levels. Given the current environment of persistently weak inflation in many advanced economies, IT central banks must now … bring inflation up to target. In this paper, the author tests to what extent inflation expectations are anchored in such …
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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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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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switching from inflation targeting to price-level targeting under imperfect credibility. Following the policy change, private … agents assign a probability to the event that the policy-maker will revert to inflation-targeting next period. As this … probability decreases and imperfect credibility abates, inflation expectations in the economy become consistent with price …
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