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It is common practice to estimate the response of asset prices to monetary policy actions using market-based measures …
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. Those counterfactual implications are eliminated by the use of interest rate rules whether prices are sticky or not. A …
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A major criticism of standard specifications of price adjustment in models for monetary policy analysis is that they violate the natural rate hypothesis by allowing output to differ from potential in steady state. In this paper we estimate a dynamic optimizing business cycle model whose...
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We analyze optimal discretionary monetary policy in an endogenous sticky prices model. Similar models with exogenous … sticky prices can deliver multiple equilibria. This is a necessary condition for the occurrence of expectation traps (when …-inflation equilibrium. With endogenous sticky prices, the monetary authority does not validate high-inflation expectations and deviates to …
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Conventional investigations of the "best" intermediate target variable for monetary policy have used a single criterion: the best fit between the behavior of an aggregate and that of some goal variable such as nominal spending or the aggregate price level. Ignored in this type of study, however,...
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The cutting edge of recent efforts to reshape monetary policy in many countries has been to impose a price target on the central bank. This paper examines such a policy in light of the Federal Reserve System's experience with money targeting from the late 1970s through the mid 1980s. The...
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prices as an information variable for monetary policy implementation. A set of option prices provides us with information on … prices on stock prices and long term government bond futures. The estimation is done for a sample of daily closing prices for …
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