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inflation expectations. We develop this measure using assumptions common in economic analysis of open economies. Using quarterly …
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each country faces a short run tradeoff between output and inflation. The model is sufficiently tractable to solve … response to domestic inflation, under cooperation they should respond to foreign inflation as well. In either scenario …
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The paper extends Woodford's (2000) analysis of the closed economy Phillips curve to an open economy with both commodity trade and capital mobility. We show that consumption smoothing, which comes with the opening of the capital market, raises the degree of strategic complementarity among...
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The paper develops a simple stochastic new open economy macroeconomic model based on sticky nominal wages. Explicit solution of the wage-setting problem under uncertainty allows one to analyze the effects of the monetary regime on welfare, expected output, and the expected terms of trade....
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This paper first outlines the key stylized facts about changes in inflation dynamics in recent years: 1) inflation … persistence has declined, 2) the Phillips curve has flattened, and 3) inflation has become less responsive to other shocks. These … changes in inflation dynamics are interpreted as resulting from an anchoring of inflation expectations as a result of better …
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This paper examines the shift in the relation between the inflation rate and the rate of growth of real output which … possible lines of explanation: a) the new classical view of the output-inflation tradeoff, initially specified by Lucas;b) the … effect of supply-side shocks, such as energy prices; c) the effect of inflation variability on the natural rate of real …
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its money demand properties and determine the optimal long-run inflation rate that trades off the New Keynesian distortion …
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pattern of correlations between exchange-rate changes and inflation that is more realistic than provided by a more standard …
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undifferentiated final product. If the nominal prices of the differentiated goods are relatively sticky, then unexpected inflation … unexpected inflation abroad. The various versions of the model imply that the relative prices of less competitive goods move …
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This paper develops a welfare-based model of monetary policy in an open economy. We focus on the extent to which monetary policy should be employed in maintaining the exchange rate. The traditional approach maintains that exchange rate flexibility is desirable in the presence of real...
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