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We use high-frequency intraday interest rate data to measure euro area monetary policy shocks on the days of ECB interest rate announcements between 2002 and 2013. In line with Gürkaynak et al. (2005), we look at monetary policy shocks along two time dimensions: one related to the current level...
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Several recent papers are devoted to the examination of the central banker's behaviour in an uncertain economic environment. This paper proposes, from a central banker's point of view, a synthesis of the main sources of uncertainty as well as an illustration of their effects within an analytical...
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This paper designs, for a broad class of rational-expectations dynamic stochastic general-equilibrium models, interest-rate rules which not only ensure the local determinacy of the targeted equilibrium within the neighbourhood of the targeted steady state, but also prevent the economy from...
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to the possible inflation bias; second, it enables us to model more satisfactorily the reputation of the central bank by … accounting for the coordination of the private agents on the punishment length. Our results suggest that the inflation bias and …
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monetary policy in the United States, in particular its interaction with the formation of inflation expectations and the … linkages between monetary policy, inflation expectations and the behaviour of CPI inflation. We use Livingston Survey data for … expected inflation, measured at a bi-annual frequency, actual inflation, unemployment and a nominal interest rate to estimate …
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exclusively on the anchoring of short- to medium-term inflation expectations (Part 2). Several measures show that this anchoring … is effective. Modern New Keynesian theory is an appropriate framework for analysing the impact that this anchoring of … expectations has on the determination of the short- to medium-term inflation rate. From this point of view, observed inflation in …
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Estimating a forward-looking monetary policy rule by the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) has become a popular approach since the influential paper by Clarida, Gali, and Gertler (1998). However, an abundant econometric literature underlines the unappealing small-samples properties of GMM...
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bank since it focuses directly on inflation. Thus, the paper considers the reduced Phillips equation, assuming a stable … relationship between inflation and some kind of demand disequilibrium index, as the most promising starting point to estimate an …
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Reserve requirements are a prominent policy instrument in many emerging countries. The present study investigates the circumstances under which reserve requirements are an appropriate policy tool for price or financial stability. We consider a small open economy model with sticky prices,...
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