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(GFC) of 2007-2008. It was greatly aided by the adoption of inflation targeting. In this paper we evaluate this convergence …
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A number of commentators have argued that the desirability of inflation targeting as a framework for monetary policy … risks to financial stability, but that it is possible to generalize an inflation targeting framework to take account of … form of flexible inflation targeting; in particular, the paper proposes a target criterion that would still imply an …
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In this paper we critically review the literature on the political economy of monetary policy, with an eye on the questions raised by the recent financial crisis. We begin with a discussion of rules versus discretion. We then examine the issue of Central Banks independence both in normal times,...
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to solve these problems, we propose modifying the central bank's objective to (i) include state-contingent inflation … targets, (ii) target a measure of inflation that overweights non-tradable inflation …
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fixes, a reasonably durable regime. However, most of the new stability is due to countries that float with an inflation … target. Though a few have left to join the Eurozone, no country has yet abandoned an inflation targeting regime under duress …. Inflation targeting now represents a serious alternative to a hard exchange rate fix for small economies seeking monetary …
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We investigate the transmission of central bank liquidity to bank deposits and loan spreads in Europe over the period from January 2006 to June 2010. We find evidence consistent with an impaired transmission channel due to bank risk. Central bank liquidity does not translate into lower loan...
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We evaluate the effects of three ECB policies (the Securities Markets Programme, the Outright Monetary Transactions, and the Long-Term Refinancing Operations) on government bond yields. We use a novel Kalman-filter augmented event-study approach and yields on euro-denominated sovereign bonds,...
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crisis, modeled as a situation where the fiscal outlook is inconsistent with both stable inflation and no sovereign default …'s balance sheet can interfere with each of these channels, stabilizing inflation and economic activity. The power of QE comes …
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The massive expansion of central-bank balance sheets in response to recent crises raises important questions about the effects of such "quantitative easing" policies, both their effects on financial conditions and on aggregate demand (the intended effects of the policies), and their possible...
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