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We study how US consumers' house price expectations respond to verbal and non-verbal communication about interest rate changes using several large online surveys. Verbal communication about interest rate hikes leads to little response of average house price expectations but large heterogeneity...
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This paper finds strong support for a Phillips curve that becomes nonlinear when inflation is "low"--which our baseline … inflation. This finding is consistent with evidence of downward nominal wage and price rigidity. When inflation is high, the … inflation regimes at 2, 3, or 4 percent inflation or for a threshold based on country-specific medians of inflation. In this …
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constraints, and shocks to them, shape inflation. We show that binding constraints for domestic and foreign producers shift … recent US data, we find that binding constraints explain half of the increase in inflation during 2021-2022. In particular …, tight capacity served to amplify the impact of loose monetary policy in 2021, fueling the inflation takeoff …
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inflation in the 2020s. Economic slack is measured as firms' job vacancies over the number of unemployed workers. After showing …. Policy implications include the thesis that appropriate monetary policy can bring inflation down without a significant …
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fraction of price changes increases with inflation. They also predict implausibly large menu costs and misallocation in the …
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flows, short-term and long-term inflation expectations and a forward-looking New-Keynesian Phillips curve for the 1960 … of 2021. This pronounced rise was primarily informed by strong wage growth rather than changes in inflation expectations …. Our model forecasts strong wage growth to moderate only sluggishly continuing to put upward pressure on inflation in the …
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curves display similar patterns of instability and to examine lead-lag patterns in how individual inflation series change. We …
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We resuscitated the mixed-frequency vector autoregression (MF-VAR) developed in Schorfheide and Song (2015, JBES) to generate macroeconomic forecasts for the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic in real time. The model combines eleven time series observed at two frequencies: quarterly and monthly....
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For decades, households' subjective expectations elicited via surveys have been considered meaningless because they often differ substantially from the forecasts of professionals and ex-post realizations. In sharp contrast, the literature we review shows household characteristics and the ways in...
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