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Credibility and Nominal Debt : Exploring the Role of Maturity in Managing Inflation
International Monetary Fund - 1989
This paper focuses on the role of debt maturity in managing the government’s incentives to use opportunistic inflation … powerful instrument to affect the time profile of the inflation tax base and, hence, to mitigate the distortions introduced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395780
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Advancing the frontiers of monetary policy
Adrian, Tobias (ed.); Laxton, Douglas (ed.);  … - 2018
Inflation-forecast targeting is state of the art for monetary policy. This book explores first principles, including …Part I. The frontiers of monetary policymaking. 1. An overview of inflation-forecast targeting -- Part II. Principles … and practices of inflation-forecast targeting. 2. First principles -- 3. Managing expectations -- 4. Nuts and bolts of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874333
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The Coordination of Domestic Public Debt and Monetary Management in Economies in Transition : Issues and Lessons From Experience
International Monetary Fund - 1994
In economies in transition, the development of financial markets is a common objective linking the monetary and fiscal authorities, while monetary and public debt management cannot be strictly separated. This calls for close coordination of objectives and instruments of monetary and debt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398325
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A Simple Dge Model for Inflation Targeting
International Monetary Fund - 2007
The paper presents a DGE model designed as a core projection tool to support monetary policy in inflation-targeting (IT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400322
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Market Information and Signaling in Central Bank Operations, Or, How often Should a Central Bank Intervene?
International Monetary Fund - 1997
A central bank must decide on the frequency with which it will conduct open market operations and the variability in short-term money market that it will allow. It is shown how the optimal operating procedure balances the value of attaining an immediate target and broadcasting the central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400555
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Anticipation and Surprises in Central Bank Interest Rate Policy : The Case of the Bundesbank
International Monetary Fund - 1998
Market reaction to a change in official interest rates will depend on the extent to which the change is anticipated, and on how it is interpreted as a signal of future policy. In this paper, a technique is developed to separate the anticipated and unanticipated components of such changes and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400820
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The Design of Instruments for Government Finance in an Islamic Economy
International Monetary Fund - 1998
This paper presents perhaps the most viable approach for the design of an instrument of government finance (and monetary management) in an Islamic economy where conventional transactions based on an ex-ante promise of a risk-free rate of return are forbidden. Resources to finance government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400833
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Robust Versus Optimal Rules in Monetary Policy: A Note
International Monetary Fund - 2004
We provide a framework for analyzing the choice between optimal and robust monetary policy rules in the presence of paradigm uncertainty. We first discuss the conditions on uncertainty that render a robust rule preferable to an optimal rule. Second, we show how the degree of risk aversion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401324
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Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policies
International Monetary Fund - 1998
Recently, monetary authorities have increasingly focused on implementing policies to ensure price stability and strengthen central bank independence. Simultaneously, in the fiscal area, market development has allowed public debt managers to focus more on cost minimization. This “divorce” of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401884
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Elasticity Optimism
International Monetary Fund - 2009
In most macroeconomic models, the substitutability between domestic and foreign goods is calibrated using aggregated data. This imposes homogeneous elasticities across goods, and the calibration is only valid under this assumption. If elasticities are heterogeneous, the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402215