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The half-life of deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) plays a central role in the ongoing debate about the ability of macroeconomic models to account for the time series behaviour of the real exchange rate. The main contribution of this paper is a general framework in which alternative...
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framework for our model, including model identification, model estimation and selection, bias correction, model diagnostic check … asset prices, such as short-term persistence and volatility clustering of unconditional returns. …
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Using multivariate unit root test methods, this Paper investigates the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis at the sectoral level across six European countries over the last seventeen years. Evidence of mean reversion toward PPP is found for the relative prices of some sectors and countries....
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persistence. This view is questioned in the paper using German data on unemployment. A new class of time-series models, the …
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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU … is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices …
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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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regimes that are nested within this framework: inflation, output-gap growth and nominal income growth targeting; and inflation …
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We use evidence from the term structure of inflation expectations implicit in the nominal yields and survey forecasts … of inflation to address the question of whether or not monetary policy is effective. We construct a model that …-neutral, subjective, and objective probability measures. We extract private sector expectations of inflation from this model and establish …
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of monetary policy. These models, based on the conventional view that inflation stabilization should be a concern of …-augmented Taylor rule can deliver recurrent mispredictions of inflation in the US before 1987. We then show that a fiscal feedback rule … the two rules predict the behaviour of inflation better than the one based just on the monetary policy rule. After 1987 …
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central banks to control inflation within their borders, at least in the absence of coordination of policy with other central … the ability of monetary policy to control inflation: by making liquidity premia a function of 'global liquidity' rather … to control the dynamics of inflation. …
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