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This study examines the changing relationship between domestic long-term , domestic short-term and foreign long-term interest rates.
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requirement that the underlying rational expectations equilibrium is locally indeterminate. We suggest ways in which policymakers …
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This paper examines the impact of downward wage rigidity (nominal and real) onoptimal steady-state inflation. For this … andFinland). The calibrated heterogeneous agent models are then solved for differentsteady state rates of inflation to derive …
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Money demand is probably one of the most extensively studies economic relationships in applied economics. While useful surveys of existing literature are available, much of the attention ahes focused on the United States. However, a considerable number of papers have recently been produced...
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The increasing weight of open market transactions in central bank operations and the widening use of purchase agreements underlines a progress towards convergence of monetary policy instruments and procedures in EU countries. This paper presents a survey of features of open market operations...
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the use of monetary policy instruments and procedures (MPIP) in EU countries. In particular, it focuses on three important issues which arise in this context. Fist, we examine the structural position of the EU money markets. Second , evidence is...
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-term interest rates to the Bank of England’s inflation report andto macroeconomic announcements. Due to the quarterly frequency at …, the more timehas elapsed since the latest release of an inflation report, market volatility shouldincrease, the price …
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non-atomistic unions. It is shown that concentrated labor markets call for more aggressive inflation stabilization. This …
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assumptions on the functional correspondence between price inflation, inflation expectations and marginal costs. Expectations are … Survey data. The results suggest that expectations drive inflation with a lag of about 6 months, which casts further doubt on … not assumed to be an unbiased predictor of actual inflation and instead derived from the European Commission’s Consumer …
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In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a … helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the persistence of output after a monetary policy shock. The ability of … the model to account for the joint dynamics of output and inflation rely on its ability to explain the dynamics in the …
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