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Many countries have large employment shares in micro and small firms that have limited access to formal financing and therefore rely on input credit. Such countries are mainly emerging and developing economies, whose business cycle dynamics are increasingly important for the global economy in...
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This paper uses the historical narrative record to determine whether inflation expectations shifted during the second … and the forecasts of contemporary business analysts, we show that inflation expectations increased dramatically. Second …, using an event-studies approach, we identify the impact on financial markets of the key events that shifted inflation …
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strengthen the countercyclical behavior of markups and attenuate the response of inflation to fluctuations in output. …
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empirical stylized facts. Pricing patterns mostly conform to these patterns. Most price changes are positive, and inflation is … productivity shock and positively by the output gap. Lagged real interest rate has a negative effect on prices, unless human …
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will not believe such promises in future recessions. When the shock hits the economy sufficiently frequently, the incentive … to maintain reputation outweighs the short-run incentive to close consumption and inflation gaps, keeping the central …
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, increased inflation and output due to higher government spending during a recession speed up the return of the policy rate to …
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model does a good job of accounting for the joint behavior of labor and goods markets, as well as inflation, during the … capital played critical roles in accounting for the small size of the drop in inflation that occurred during the Great …
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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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In this paper, we document that mortgage-backed securities (MBS) held by the Federal Reserve exhibit faster principal prepayment rates than MBS held by the rest of the market. Next, we show that this stylized fact persists even when controlling for factors that affect prepayment behavior, and...
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We review recent changes in monetary policy that have led to development and testing of an overnight reverse repurchase agreement (ON RRP) facility, an innovative tool for implementing monetary policy during the normalization process. Making ON RRPs available to a broad set of investors,...
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