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With integrated trade and financial markets, a collapse in aggregate demand in a large country can cause "natural real interest rates" to fall below zero in all countries, giving rise to a global "liquidity trap." This paper explores the optimal policy response to this type of shock, when...
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half of the IS-LM model and replaces it with a rule for setting the interest rate as a function of inflation and the output … mismatch. The modified model is a dynamic system in output and inflation, with a unique stable path that behaves very much like …
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When a small open economy experiences a sufficiently large negative export shock, it is vulnerable to falling into a zero bound trap. In addition, such a shock can have very large impact on the economy compared to the case when the zero bound is not a binding constraint. This could be one...
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The literature has argued that developing countries are unable to adopt counter-cyclical monetary and fiscal policies due to financial imperfections and unfavorable politicaleconomy conditions. Using a world sample of 115 industrial and developing countries for 1984-2008, we find that the level...
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I study optimal interest rate policy in a small open economy with consumer search in the product market. When there are search frictions, firms price-to-market, with implications for the design of monetary policy. Country-specific shocks generate deviations from the law of one price for traded...
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Using survey data of inflation expectations across a 36 developed and developing countries, this paper examines whether … the adoption of inflation targeting has helped to anchor inflation expectations. We examine the response of inflation … expectations following a shock to inflation, inflation expectations, and oil prices. For the 13 countries that adopted inflation …
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financial policy and analysis covering four areas: the emergence and taming of the great inflation, developments in US external …
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hitting the zero bound affects the target inflation rate of the other country. The direction of the effect depends on whether … interest-rate rules. Our finding is that targeting the price level yields higher welfare than targeting the inflation rate, and …
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