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This study constructs measures of aggregate price uncertainty for four industrialized countries (Canada, West Germany … countries and through time between the rate of inflation, inflation variability, and our measures of price uncertainty. In …. Our results suggest that the higher and more variable inflation of the 1970s did increase uncertainty about the aggregate …
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We estimate a multi-country multi-sector New Keynesian model to quantify the drivers of domestic inflation during 2020 …-2023 in several countries, including the United States. The model matches observed inflation together with sector-level prices … and wages. We further measure the relative importance of different types of shocks on inflation across countries over time …
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We leverage the inflation upswing of 2022 and various granular datasets to identify robust price-setting patterns … for interpreting recent inflation dynamics …
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We develop the theory of price-level determination in a range of models using both ad hoc policy rules and jointly optimal monetary and fiscal policies and discuss empirical issues that arise when trying to identify monetary-fiscal regime. The article concludes with directions in which...
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In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating … stabilize price movements in the flexible price sector. Also, in the presence of financial frictions, stabilizing core inflation … frictions a welfare-maximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting--a target based on headline …
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This paper characterizes the properties of various interest-rate rules in a basic forward-looking model. We compare simple Taylor rules and rules that respond to price-level fluctuations (called Wicksellian rules). We argue that by introducing an appropriate amount of history dependence in...
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contributed to financial instability during 1790-1933, and that inflation rate shocks contributed to financial instability during …
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contributed to financial instability during 1790-1933, and that inflation rate shocks contributed to financial instability during …
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debt matters. For example, it determines whether news of future deficits implies current inflation or future inflation …. When long term debt is present, the government can trade current inflation for future inflation by debt operations; this … variance of inflation. I find cases in which long-term debt helps to stabilize inflation, and I find that the optimal inflation …
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We test whether the time-series positive correlation of inflation and intermarket relative price variability is also … higher than average inflation also have higher than average relative price dispersion, ceteris paribus. This result holds for … part of the relationship between inflation and relative price variability cannot be explained by monetary factors …
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