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shocks contributed to the stagflation of the 1970s. Understanding what went wrong in the 1970s is the key to learning from … related to the oil market played a major role in causing both the major oil price increases of the 1970s and stagflation in … monetary policy makers, causing stagflation in the process. This paper reviews the evidence for these two main explanations …
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The origins of stagflation and the possibility of its recurrence continue to be an important concern among policymakers … and in the popular press. It is common to associate the origins of the Great Stagflation of the 1970s with the two major … of the causal mechanism generating stagflation as is often thought. We provide a model that can explain the bulk of …
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Increases in oil prices have been held responsible for recessions, periods of excessive inflation, reduced productivity … none of the more recent oil price shocks has been associated with stagflation in the US economy, a major reason for the … stagflation of the 1970s. We show that this is not the case. …
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, inflation expectations would have remained anchored and the stagflation of the 1970s would have been avoided. Indeed, we find … rate and large real-time errors in estimates of the natural rate uprooted here-to-fore quiescent inflation expectations and … that less activist policies would have been more effective at stabilizing both inflation and unemployment. We argue that …
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The volatile data for inflation, output, and interest rates in the United Kingdom prior to the 1990s, and the relative … macroeconomic stability associated with inflation targeting, provide a rich basis for discriminating between rival explanations for … the outbreak of stagflation. We examine alternative hypotheses with a New Keynesian model of aggregate demand and …
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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU … is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices …
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This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in a monetary version of Farmer’s (2009) model in which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model; the optimizing IS curve and the policy rule. It...
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Since World War II, direct stock ownership by households has largely been replaced by indirect stock ownership by financial institutions. We argue that tax policy is the driving force. Using long time-series from eight countries, we show that the fraction of household ownership decreases with...
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accurate forecasts. We use the model to study the pass-through of an oil shock and to study the evolution of inflation during …
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The U.S recession of 2007 to 2009 is unique in the post-World-War-II experience by the broad company it kept. Activity contracted around the world, with the advanced countries of the North experiencing declines in spending normally the purview of the developing economies of the South. The last...
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