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The Inflation-Output Trade-off with Downward Wage Rigidities
Benigno, Pierpaolo - 2010
consequences of their current wage choices, when facing both idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks. We derive a closed-form solution for a long-run Phillips curve which relates average output gap to average wage inflation: it is virtually vertical at high inflation and flattens at low inflation....
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Expectation Traps and Discretion
Chari, V. V. - 1996
We argue that discretionary monetary policy exposes the economy to welfare-decreasing instability. It does so by creating the potential for private expectations about the response of monetary policy to exogenous shocks to be self-fulfilling. Among the many equilibria that are possible, some have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473315
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Endogenous Volatility at the Zero Lower Bound : Implications for Stabilization Policy
Basu, Susanto - 2015
At the zero lower bound, the central bank's inability to offset shocks endogenously generates volatility. In this setting, an increase in uncertainty about future shocks causes significant contractions in the economy and may lead to non-existence of an equilibrium. The form of the monetary...
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Does Inflation Targeting Increase Output Volatility? An International Comparison of Policymakers' Preferences and Outcomes
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 1999
Aggregate shocks that move output and inflation in opposite directions create a tradeoff between output and inflation variability, forcing central bankers to make a choice. Differences in the degree of accommodation of shocks lead to disparate variability outcomes, revealing national central...
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Uncertainty and Monetary Policy During Extreme Events
Pellegrino, Giovanni - 2020
activity to a financial uncertainty shock during the great recession. We replicate this evidence with an estimated DSGE … real activity of an uncertainty shock under different Taylor rules estimated with normal times vs. great recession data … (the latter associated with a stronger response to output). We find that the uncertainty shock-induced output loss …
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Uncertainty and Monetary Policy in Good and Bad Times : A Replication of the VAR Investigation by Bloom (2009)
Caggiano, Giovanni - 2020
an uncertainty shock. We find a significantly stronger response of real activity in recessions. Counterfactual …
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Rent Rigidity, Asymmetric Information, and Volatility Bounds in Labor Markets
Bruegemann, Bjoern - 2007
Recent findings have revived interest in the link between real wage rigidity and employment fluctuations, in the context of frictional labor markets. The standard search and matching model fails to generate substantial labor market fluctuations if wages are set by Nash bargaining, while it can...
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Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility
Bernanke, Ben - 2000
We explore the implications of asset price volatility for the management of monetary policy. We show that it is desirable for central banks to focus on underlying inflationary pressures. Asset prices become relevant only to the extent they may signal potential inflationary or deflationary...
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Volatile Policy and Private Information : The Case of Monetary Policy
Jones, Larry E. - 1999
In this paper we study how volatility in monetary policy affects economic performance in the presence of endogenously chosen information structures. To isolate the effects produced by the interaction of uncertainty in monetary policy and (possibly) asymmetric information, we consider a model in...
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Interest Rate Volatility and Monetary Policy
Walsh, Carl E. - 1982
In October 1979 the Federal Reserve shifted from an interest rate oriented operating procedure to a reserves oriented procedure. It is argued in this paper that part of the very large increase in interest rate volatility which resulted from the policy switch may have been due to shifts in the...
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