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The Philippine Central Bank's Monetary Policy Reaction Function from 1992 to 2003
Salas, John Michael Ian S. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper attempts to provide an empirical determination of the Philippine central bank's (BSP) recent monetary policy stance, before and after its adoption of the inflation targeting framework, as revealed by its interest rate setting behavior. Employing Clarida, Gali, and Gertler's (1998,...
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Monetary Policy in the Euro Area - Lessons from the First Years
Clausen, Volker; Hayo, Bernd - EconWPA - 2002
This paper investigates in a consistent semi-structural empirical framework three current issues of monetary policy in the euro area. First, regarding policy transmission we offer a three-stage procedure to combine the efficient estimation of economic structure prior to EMU with current ECB...
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An Experimental Test Of Taylor-Type Rules With Inexperienced Central Bankers
Engle-Warnick, Jim; Turdaliev, Nurlan - EconWPA - 2005
We experimentally test whether a class of monetary policy decision rules describes decision making in a population of inexperienced central bankers. In our experiments, subjects repeatedly set the short-term interest rate for a computer economy with inflation as their target. A large majority of...
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Monetary Policy Reaction Functions: ECB versus Bundesbank
Hayo, Bernd; Hofmann, Boris - EconWPA - 2003
We estimate monetary policy reaction functions for the Bundesbank (1979:4-1998:12) and the European Central Bank (1999:1-2003:7). The Bundesbank regime can be characterised, both before and after German reunification, by an inflation weight of 1.2 and an output weight of 0.4. The estimates for...
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Comparing Monetary Policy Reaction Functions: ECB versus Bundesbank
Hayo, Bernd; Hofmann, Boris - EconWPA - 2005
This paper compares the ECB’s conduct of monetary policy with that of the Bundesbank. Estimated monetary policy reaction functions for the Bundesbank (1979:4-1998:12) and the European Central Bank (1999:1- 2004:5) show that, while the ECB and the Bundesbank react similarly to expected...
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Macroeconomic Policy in a Real Business Cycle Model with Money
Chen, Shiu-Sheng - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic policy shocks in a Real- Business-Cycle Model with money. In addition to technology shocks, I include government consumption, government investment, tax rate and monetary policy as sources of random disturbances. Money is introduced in a...
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Liquidity Preference Theory Revisited—To Ditch or to Build on It?
Bibow, Joerg - EconWPA - 2005
This paper revisits Keynes’s liquidity preference theory as it evolved from the Treatise on Money to The General Theory … and after, with a view of assessing the theory’s ongoing relevance and applicability to issues of both monetary theory and … policy. Contrary to the neoclassical “special case” interpretation, Keynes considered his liquidity preference theory of …
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The credibility of monetary policy: a survey of the literature with some simple applications to Caanda
Amano, Robert; Fenton, Paul; Tessier, David; Norden, … - EconWPA - 1996
We don't have an abstract yet, sorry. But I think the title is pretty descriptive.
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Reflections on the Current Fashion For Central Bank Independence
Bibow, Jörg - EconWPA - 2001
This paper challenges the time-inconsistency case for central bank independence. It argues that the time-inconsistency literature not only seriously confuses the substance of the rules versus discretion debate, but also posits an implausible view of monetary policy. Most worrisome, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561151
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Exchange Rate Floating and Inflation Targeting Implementing - Lessons from a succesful transition - The Brazilian Case
Deheza, Juan Carlos Soldano - EconWPA - 2003
El objetivo de este paper es realizar una descripción del caso brasileño, en lo que hace a la salida de un sistema en el cual el ancla nominal de la economía era un tipo de cambio semi-fijo, hacia un régimen de flotación “cuasi” limpia de la moneda, en el que el ancla de la economía...
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