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I offer a macroeconomic perspective on the “Reserves for All” (RFA) proposal to let the general public use electronic central bank money. After distinguishing RFA from cryptocurrencies and relating the proposal to discussions about narrow banking and the abolition of cash I propose an...
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Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are receiving more attention than ever before. Yet the motivations for issuance vary across countries, as do the policy approaches and technical designs. We investigate the economic and institutional drivers of CBDC development and take stock of design...
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linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the 'Great Inflation', nominal wages moved in the same direction as … the (required) adjustment of real wages, and in the opposite direction of the price response. During the 'Great Inflation … increasing inflation volatility. Using a standard DSGE model, we show that these stylized facts, in particular the estimated …
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We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...
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economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments that the flexible exchange rate has undermined real economic …
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The likely extension of the euro area has triggered a debate on the organization of the ECB, in particular on the apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal representation in a federal central bank addressing this...
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, unemployment, or inflation that are opposite in sign to what standard macroeconomic models would predict. This evidence has been …
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Central banks unexpectedly tightening policy rates often observe the exchange value of their currency depreciate, rather than appreciate as predicted by standard models. We document this for Fed and ECB policy days using eventstudies and ask whether an information effect, where the public...
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How should central banks optimally aggregate sectoral inflation rates in the presence of imperfect labor mobility … mobility, ceteris paribus, increases the optimal weight on inflation in a sector that would otherwise receive a lower weight … computing sectoral inflation weights based solely on sector size, and unveil a significant role for the degree of sectoral labor …
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Using daily data on inflation-indexed bonds, we find evidence of a negative relationship between ECB communication … changes in euro area break-even inflation. However, this result is only found for the second half of 2005. At that time, the …
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