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and dispersion of LAMP increase the desired inflation volatility and decrease the desired output volatility.  The implied … be the response of the nominal interest rate to expected inflation. …
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There is widespread disagreement about the role of housing wealth in explaining consumption.  This paper exploits liquid and illiquid wealth time series from household balance sheet data for South Africa, previously constructed by the authors, to explain fluctuations in the ratios of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364585
Major changes in the Norwegian exchange rate have often coincided with large fluctuations in the price of crude oil. Previous empirical studies have however suggested a weak and ambiguous relation between the oil price and the exchange rate. In contrast to these studies, this paper explores the...
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and dispersion of LAMP increase the desired inflation volatility.  The implied optimal Taylor rule shows that subject to … interest rate to expected inflation. …
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Major changes in the Norwegian exchange rate have often coincided with large fluctuations in the price of crude oil. Previous empirical studies have however suggested a weak and ambiguous relation between the oil price and the exchange rate. In contrast to these studies, this paper explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090673
during the `Great Inflation` period. …
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Optimal monetary policy is sensitive to the Phillips curve specification used to represent the dynamics of inflation … inflation and price level targeting. …
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In countries with credible inflation targeting, it seems plausible to suggest that instead of forming a rational … expectation, some firms (inflation-targeters) might simply expect future inflation to always equal its target. This paper analyses … shocks have any persistence, inflation is more stable, loss is reduced, and the optimal policy frontier is improved as the …
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setting causes inflation persistence. We analyse how the endogeneity of the capital stock changes the macroeconomic dynamics … inflation more persistent in reduced form. This makes the optimal contemporaneous policy response to shocks more vigorous but …
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This paper proposes that all new euro area sovereign borrowing be in the form of jointly guaranteed Eurobonds.  To avoid classic moral hazard problems and to insure the guarantors against default, each country would pay a risk premium conditional on economic fundamentals to a joint debt...
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