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We consider what, if any, relationship there is between monetary aggregates and inflation, and whether there is any … paribus unitary relationship between inflation and money growth. Simulations of a New Keynesian model suggest that we should … allowance needed for the phase shift in the relationship between monetary growth rates and inflation. While financial innovation …
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remarks at an economics luncheon co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Seattle Branch) and the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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output and inflation temporarily above target. From the perspective of our model such a policy reflects a low degree of … credibility. We find increased forecast uncertainty in inflation and the output gap at the zero lower bound while interest rate …
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This paper reviews the available evidence and previous research on potential effects of financial globalization, that is, the international integration of financial markets. In particular, we address the questions: Has financial globalization materially increased the influence of external...
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This paper documents the impact of U.S. monetary policy announcement surprises on foreign equity indexes, short- and long-term interest rates, and exchange rates in 49 countries. We use two proxies for monetary policy surprises: the surprise change to the current target federal funds rate...
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discuss several issues that concern the selection of a central bank's inflation objective under such conditions: price … low inflation could change relationships within the real economy. We present a framework for analyzing monetary policy … tend to be the case when long-term inflation is low. We summarize the results of research done at the Federal Reserve to …
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parameters of policy rules. The paper derives closed form solutions for equilibrium inflation and real debt as functions of … interest rate reverses the usual Granger-causal ordering between deficits and monetization, so that money growth (or inflation …
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This paper provides an evaluation of the effectiveness of inflation targeting in four industrial countries --New … fmancial market data suggests that credibility of their inflation targeting regimes on balance has deteriorated during the past … increases in long-term interest rates appear to be incompatible with the possibility that market expectations for inflation have …
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From 2004 to 2006, the FOMC raised the target federal funds rate by 4.25 percentage points, yet long-maturity yields and forward rates fell. We consider several possible explanations for this "conundrum." The most likely, in our view, is a fall in the term premium, probably associated with some...
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