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We investigate whether the anchoring properties of long-run inflation expectations in the United States, the euro area … economies, expectations measures extracted from inflation-indexed bonds and inflation swaps became much more volatile in 2007 …. Moreover, their sensitivity to news about inflation and other domestic macroeconomic variables a measure of anchoring increased …
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In their seminal paper, Morris and Shin (2002a) argued that increasing the precision of public information is not always bene.cial to social welfare. Svensson (2005) however has disputed this by saying that although feasible, the conditions for which this was true, were not at all that likely....
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macroeconomic magnitudes, we investigate how the link between inflation and inflation expectations alters with increasing … Bank, and only through them, inflation. We apply the framework used by Levin et al (2004) who differentiate between … inflation targeters and countries that do not have explicit quantitative objectives. They discover that inflation targeters …
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This paper surveys the literature on monetary policy at the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates. Certain crucial insights regarding expectations have been neglected in recent research in this field. Taking this into account, the interactions between demand and supply shocks appear crucial...
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We provide an up-to-date overview of the literature on the desirability of central bank transparency from an economic viewpoint. Since the move towards more transparency, a lot of research on its e¤ects has been carried out. First, we show how the theoretical literature has evolved, by...
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private sector inflation forecasts. But beyond the optimum people might: (1) start to attach too much weight tothe … deteriorates the (perceived) quality of privatesector inflation forecasts. Inflation then is set in a more backward looking manner … resulting in higher inflation persistence. By using a panel data set on the transparency of 100 centralbanks we find empirical …
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of inflation risks. The empirical application shows that trading off monetary and macroprudential policy reduces the … overall costs related to inflation and financial instability. This can be achieved by changing the preferences of the central … bank, lengthening the monetary policy horizon and by a more flexible inflation target. Estimation results of a probit model …
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This paper examines whether the clarity of central bank communication about inflation has changed with the economic … environment. We use readability statistics and content analysis to study the clarity of communication on the inflation outlook by … explaining their policies when faced with higher uncertainty or a less favorable inflation outlook. The global financial crisis …
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Among the most notable, but least discussed, hallmarks of what I have called the "quiet revolution" in central banking practice (Blinder, 2004a) has been the movement toward making monetary policy decisions by committee. Until about a decade ago, most central banks had a single governor, who...
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We analyse the relationship between tail risk and crisis measures by governments and the central bank. Using an adjusted Merton model in a game theoretical set-up, the analysis shows that the participation constraint for interventions by the central bank and the governments is less binding if...
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