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) a macroeconomic game between two countries' with inflation-bias preferences confronting uncertain demands for moneys. In …
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This paper uses a multicountry econometric model with rational expectations to analyze the effects of alternative monetary policy regimes on the stability of various macroeconomic variables in the face of stochastic shocks to the economy. The policy regimes use a short-term interest-rate...
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reunification. A policy that separates learning from control may induce a persistent upward bias in money growth and inflation, just …
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Using the prices of federal funds futures contracts, we measure the impact of the surprise component of Federal Reserve policy decisions on the expected future trajectory of interest rates. We show how this information can be used to identify the effects of a monetary policy shock in a standard...
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output-inflation volatility frontier of each model for alternative specifications of the interest rate rule, subject to an …-difference of the federal funds rate responds to the current output gap and the deviation of the one-year average inflation rate … complicated rules (i.e., rules that respond to a larger number of variables and/or additional lags of output and inflation …
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Monetary policy is modeled as governed by a known rule, except for a time-varying target rate of inflation. The …-expectations model of the U.S. economy, are used to examine the benefits of reducing the variability in the target rate of inflation. We … greater attention to output stabilization than otherwise. The results provide insights as to why inflation-targeting countries …
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expected inflation. The inability of the Fed to maintain a credible commitment to low interest rates in the face of increased … government spending and rising inflation led to the Fed-Treasury Accord of March 1951. Following the Accord, the external …
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