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interest rates by critically surveying theories about (a) optimal anticipated inflation, (b) optimal unanticipated inflation …
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inflation and aggregate output. Our main findings are threefold. First, monetary policy affects the probability of a crisis both … central bank can both reduce the probability of a crisis and increase welfare by departing from strict inflation targeting and …
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Singapore entered the COVID-19 pandemic with sizable policy space and robust economic policy frameworks, yet facing …
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On June 20, 2018, the Executive Board approved the largest stand-by arrangement in the Fund's history, in support of Argentina's 2018-21 economic program. After an augmentation in October 2018, access under the arrangement amounted to USD 57 billion (1,227 percent of Argentina's IMF quota). The...
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A simple New-Keynesian model is set out with AS-AD graphical analysis. The model is consistent with modern central banking, which targets shortterm nominal interest rates instead of money supply aggregates. This simple framework enables us to analyze the economic impact of productivity or markup...
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policy requires that inflation be stabilized at the union level. On the other hand, the relinquishment of an independent …
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on a number of grounds which we evaluate in this paper. We show that observed inflation persistence in U.S. time series … is consistent with the absence of structural inflation stickiness as is the case in the benchmark NNS economy. We …
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Georgia has emerged from its second lockdown that was imposed in November 2020 following a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases. Vaccinations commenced in March 2021 and the country is now entering a critical stage in overcoming the pandemic. The lockdowns drove a contraction of around 6.2 percent...
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central banks to control inflation within their borders, at least in the absence of coordination of policy with other central … the ability of monetary policy to control inflation: by making liquidity premia a function of "global liquidity" rather … to control the dynamics of inflation …
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