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This paper investigates the accuracy and heterogeneity of output growth and inflation forecasts during the current and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958731
This paper investigates the accuracy and heterogeneity of output growth and inflation forecasts during the current and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504547
interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986410
U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958646
Earlier studies of the seigniorage inflation model have found that the high-inflation steady state is not stable under … on stationary hyperinflationary paths near the high-inflation steady state. The hyperinflationary paths are stable under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958763
As inflation rates in the United States decline, analysts are asking if there are economic reasons to hold the rates at … levels above zero. Previous studies of whether inflation greases the wheels of the labor market ignore inflation's potential … allows the benefits of inflation (downward wage flexibility) to be separated from disruptive uncertainty about inflation rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958799
interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007633
Earlier studies of the seigniorage inflation model have found that the high-inflation steady state is not stable under … on stationary hyperinflationary paths near the high-inflation steady state. The hyperinflationary paths are stable under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005120784
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001919095
We evaluate the importance of the precautionary saving motive by relying on a direct question about precautionary wealth from the 1995 and 1998 waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances. In this survey, a new question has been designed to elicit the amount of desired precautionary wealth. This...
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