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unemployment-inflation tradeoff might indicate not something to be exploited but instead only policy-makers' correctly …
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concentrated in the second year after the shock. (2) Inflation responses are more varied. The median CPI inflation response peaks … consumer price inflation. Evidence of sustained inflation (as in the case of Germany) therefore must reflect a favorable … cumulative inflation and real growth responses, some countries such as Italy, France and Japan have fared well when faced with …
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This paper explores the interrelation between the degree of unemployment persistence and the unemployment-productivity trade-off. The analysis suggests that the more effective are structural labour market policies (designed to change labour market institutions and laws, such as job security...
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competition to influence domestic inflation. By comparing the unrestricted and restricted specifications, we provide evidence that … foreign competition plays an important role in accounting for the behavior of inflation in the traded goods sector. Our … inflation in the 1990s. Our results also provide evidence against demand curves with a constant elasticity in the context of …
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This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in a monetary version of Farmer’s (2009) model in which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model; the optimizing IS curve and the policy rule. It...
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channel through which monetary policy lowers the volatility of inflation and, even more importantly, output. …
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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...
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A vast empirical literature has documented delayed and persistent effects of monetary policy shocks on output. We show that this finding results from the aggregation of output impulse responses that differ sharply depending on the timing of the shock: When the monetary policy shock takes place...
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responses to the inflation triggered by oil price shocks are an important source of aggregate fluctuations in the U.S. economy … VAR models, the Federal Reserve was not responding to the inflation triggered by oil price shocks, as commonly presumed …
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inflation and unemployment. Under some assumptions, that relation takes a form similar to that found in empirical applications …. The structural wage equation derived here is shown to account reasonably well for the comovement of wage inflation and the …
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