Showing 1 - 10 of 286
inflation and output dynamics in the United States. In particular, I find that real money balance effects are quantitatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933293
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933335
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808321
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698836
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960391
The author surveys recent articles on the costs and benefits of price-level targeting versus inflation targeting … how price-level targeting affects the short-run trade-off between output and inflation variability by influencing … expectations of future inflation. The author looks at the implications of this argument for assigning an objective based on price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005162379
inflation and output dynamics in the United States. In particular, I find that real money balance effects are quantitatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042251
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673300
-traded-goods inflation, since prices are found to be more sticky in this production sector, but those gains come at the cost of substantially … estimated model for the Canadian economy, with a strict inflation-targeting rule where the central bank reacts to the next … period's expected deviation from the inflation target and does not target the output gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673357
. Compared to the historical inflation targeting rule, an optimal price level targeting regime substantially reduces the welfare … also better than the optimal inflation targeting rule in minimizing the distortion generated by the presence of nominal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673378