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We argue that the Great Inflation experienced by both the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1970s has an … common doctrine underlying the systematic monetary policy choices in each country. The nonmonetary approach to inflation …
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This paper provides an explanation for the run-up of U.S. inflation in the 1960s and 1970s and the sharp disinflation … by low inflation. However, prolonged episodes of high inflation ending with rapid disinflations can occur when … policymakers underestimate both the natural rate of unemployment and the persistence of inflation in the Phillips curve. I estimate …
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A parsimonious model of shifting policy regimes can simultaneously capture expected and actual US inflation during 1969 …. Private sector learning about policymaker type leads to a reputation state variable. We use model inflation forecasting rules … to extract state variables from SPF inflation forecasts. US inflation is tracked by optimal policy without commitment …
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This paper assesses the proximate causes of the post pandemic surge in US inflation, the Federal Reserve's real time …
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Why do some attempts at disinflation lead to substantial reductions in inflation while others do not? We investigate … that a fundamental determinant of success in reducing inflation was the strength of the Federal Reserve's commitment to … disinflation at the start of its attempts. In episodes where its commitment was high, there were significant declines in inflation …
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. In the other country, say Europe, the exchange rate change worsens inflation.This paper starts from the premise that … to a more contractionary monetary policy in order to fight inflation. Given the U.S. contraction, it might be desirable … aggregate output and inflation.This conclusion follows from the assumption that in each of two sectors,nontraded goods or …
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The paper begins by tracing the origins of the case for inflation targeting in postwar US monetary history. It … describes five aspects of inflation targeting practiced implicitly by the Greenspan Fed. It argues that (1) low long run … inflation should be an explicit priority for monetary policy, (2) as a practical matter it is not desirable for the Fed to vary …
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Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and evaluated, with the aim of drawing lessons for monetary policy from the recent historical record. All four countries shifted during this period to money targeting, though with...
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When policymakers implement a disinflation program directed at high inflation, the real dollar value of their country …, the average cumulative abnormal 12-month return associated with disinflations directed at moderate inflation is negative … not experience a quick, low-cost transition from moderate inflation to the Fed's two-percent target …
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We conduct a systematic analysis of the costs and benefits of large-scale securities purchases, using the Federal Reserve's QE4 program as a concrete example. This program was initiated at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 and continued for two years, leading to a doubling of the Fed's...
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