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policy anticipations and expected inflation effects are formally specified and compared to the estimated responses …'s short-run monetary policy. The expected inflation hypothesis implies that weekly money surprises should have persistent …
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This paper develops two models, one involving risk neutrality and the other risk aversion, which suggest that inflation … evidence supports the hypothesis that inflation uncertainty affects interest rates. Interpreted in terms of the risk neutral … model, the empirical results suggest that inflation uncertainty has a negative impact on nominal interest rates and a …
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This paper investigates the hypothesis that surprise changes in the money supply and anticipated inflation (the Mundell … surprises and expected real interest or an inverse relationship between anticipated inflation and expected real interest. These …
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inflation illusion. Illusionary investors mistake changes in nominal interest rates for changes in real rates, while smart … moves with expected inflation. The model also predicts a nonmonotonic relationship between the price-to-rent ratio on … developed. We document that many countries experienced a housing boom in the high-inflation 1970s and a second, stronger, boom …
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future path of inflation. Mishkin (1990) has recently shown that the spread between the 12-month and 3-month interest rates … helps to predict the difference between the 12-month and 3-month inflation rates. His approach however, lacks a theoretical … the problem of predicting the inflation spread. It is shown that the appropriate indicator of expected inflation can make …
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We consider the puzzling behavior of interest rates and inflation in the United States and the United Kingdom between … World War I; the average inflation rate was 3.8 percentage points higher in the second period than in the first. Yet nominal … consistent with rational expectations if inflation were not forecastable, and indeed univariate tests show little sign of serial …
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We use a unique design feature of a survey of Italian firms to study the causal effect of inflation expectations on … recent inflation whereas other firms are not. This information treatment generates exogenous variation in inflation … expectations. We find that higher inflation expectations on the part of firms leads them to raise their prices, increase demand for …
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explained largely by changes in expected inflation. It presents and tests a model of expected, after-tax real interest rate … changes in anticipated inflation has been below levels anticipated by many investigators; (2) how the measured impact on … did so by an estimated 24 basis points);(4) inflation uncertainty produces no significant impact on interest rates due to …
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This note tests the hypothesis that nominal interest differentials between similar assets denominated in different currencies can be explained entirely by the expected change in the exchange rate over the holding period. This proposition, often called the "Fisher open" hypothesis or the...
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of inflation, mortgage rates, and unemployment to the effects of communication about future inflation in a randomized … then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates … beyond one year do not have any additional impact on forecasts. Exogenous variation in inflation expectations transmits into …
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