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Under inflation targeting inflation exhibits negative serial correlation in the United Kingdom, and little or no …, inflation appears to be (nearly) purely forward-looking, so that no mechanism introducing backward-looking components is … necessary to fit the data. These results question the notion that the intrinsic inflation persistence found in post-WWII U …
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Based upon a large fraction of the price records used for computing the French CPI, we document consumer price rigidity in France. We first provide a methodological discussion of issues involved in estimating average price duration with micro-data. The average duration of prices in the sectors...
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We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …
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This paper assumes that a central bank commits itself to maintaining an inflation target and then asks what measure of … the inflation rate the central bank should use if it wants to maximize economic stability. The paper first formalizes this …
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Inflation has been well contained over the last decades in most industrialized countries. This implies, however, that … memories of high inflation are likely to fade, because over time larger parts of the population have never experienced high … inflation, whereas those who have might forget. This paper tests whether memories of high inflation affect agents’ preferences …
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targeting sector specific inflation rates rather than the aggregate inflation rate is very sensitive to the shape of the … rule can be closely approximated by a simple rule that targets aggregate inflation. JEL Classification: E32, E52, E58 …
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announcing a quantified inflation objective, other forms of communication, or by publishing central banks’ inflation and output … (economic) transparency, and given our findings that disagreement among inflation expectations in the general public is not …
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This paper attempts at characterising South Korean monetary policy in the period of explicit inflation targeting …
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“Forecast targeting,” forward-looking monetary policy that uses central-bank judgment to construct optimal policy projections of the target variables and the instrument rate, may perform substantially better than monetary policy that disregards judgment and follows a given instrument rule....
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The paper studies the inflation rate associated with optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a number of standard dynamic …, optimal inflation policy requires the validation, that is, the full accommodation of core producer inflation by actual … producer price inflation;(2) Optimal monetary policy implements Bailey-Friedman optimal quantity of money rule. No welfare …
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