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the Covid pandemic. Inflation responded asymmetrically to movements in demand. This helps to explain why inflation did not … most of the rise during the rebound. Inflation rates across firms have become more dispersed and skewed since the start of … the pandemic. We find that average price inflation is positively correlated with the dispersion and skewness of the …
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This paper analyses the response of firms to monthly CPI inflation releases using high-frequency data from a large … economy-wide business survey. CPI inflation perceptions respond very quickly, in a matter of hours after the release. We also … find that firms' expected own-price growth has a strong positive correlation with changes in CPI inflation, particularly …
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Blanchard (2022) highlights in his analysis of near-term inflation pressures. The amenity-values gains associated with the …
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We develop and estimate a structural model of inflation that allows for a fraction of firms that use a backward looking … measures of arginal cost as the relevant determinant of inflation, as the theory suggests, instead of an ad-hoc output gap …. Real marginal costs are a significant and quantitatively important determinant of inflation. Backward looking price setting …
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for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.<br><br>We proceed in two steps. We first … setting by firms. We derive the relation between inflation and unemployment and discuss how it is influenced by the presence … of labor market frictions and real wage rigidities. We show the nature of the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment …
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for the mild effects on inflation and economic activity of the recent increase in the price of oil: (a) good luck (i …
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perspective on the linkages among monetary policy, inflation, and the business cycle. It is argued that the adoption of an …
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as a tool to compare the characteristics of European inflation dynamics with those observed in the U.S. We also analyze … the factors underlying inflation inertia by examining the cyclical behavior of marginal costs, as well as that of its two … is substantial, but in line with survey evidence and U.S. estimates, (c) inflation dynamics in the Euro area appear to …
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for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.<br><br>We proceed in two steps. We first … setting by firms. We derive the relation between inflation and unemployment and discuss how it is influenced by the presence … of labor market frictions and real wage rigidities. We show the nature of the tradeoff between inflation and unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005248798
We describe some of the main features of the recent vintage macroeconomic models used for monetary policy evaluation. We point to some of the key differences with respect to the earlier generation of macro models, and highlight the insights for policy that these new frameworks have to offer. Our...
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