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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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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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potentially nonlinear effects of inflation on economic growth. We find that inflation is associated with significantly lower … effects of inflation on economic growth. We also document significant variation in the effect of inflation on growth across …
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groups in the dispersion of household-specific rates of inflation. Using survey data on inflation expectations, I show that … demographic groups with greater dispersion in experienced inflation also disagree more about future inflation. I argue that these … results can be rationalized from the perspective of an imperfect information model in which idiosyncratic inflation experience …
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We study the pricing response of U.S. supermarkets to large demand shocks triggered by labor conflicts, mass population relocation, and shopping sprees around major snowstorms and hurricanes. Our focus on demand shocks is novel in the empirical literature that uses large datasets of individual...
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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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Money demand and the stock of money have all but disappeared from monetary policy analyses. This paper is an empirical contribution to the debate over the role of money in monetary policy analysis. The paper models supply and demand interactions in the money market and finds evidence of an...
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economies. In general, we find that the P* approach is useful in the analysis of German inflation, but that it is less promising …
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