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short-run effects depend critically on the monetary policy response: whether the central bank allows inflation to directly …
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We explore the implications of monetary unification for real interest rates and (relative) public debt levels. The adoption of a common monetary policy renders the risk-return characteristics of the participating countries more similar, so that the substitutability of their public debt increases...
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This paper studies the design of the policy mix in a monetary union, that is, the institutional arrangement specifying the relationships between the various policymakers present in the union and the extent of their capacity of action. It is assumed that policymakers do not cooperate. Detailing...
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We assess the role of national fiscal policies, as automatic stabilizers, within a monetary union. We use a two-country New Keynesian DGE model which incorporates non-Ricardian consumers (as in Gal? et al. 2004) and a home bias in the composition of national consumption bundles. We find that...
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experiment of the past decade, stemming from a belief of the government that higher interest rates cause higher inflation … eventually a negative coefficient on inflation in the policy rule. In such an environment, was the exchange rate still a random … walk? Was inflation anchored? Does the “standard model” suffice to explain the broad contours of macroeconomic outcomes in …
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and inflation in the member countries. Stress in a country is defined as the difference between the country's actual short …
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The euro area will not have a centralised budget and smoothing of country-specific asymmetric shocks via private financial markets will develop only slowly. Mistrust among the governments has caused rigid, even pro-cyclical fiscal policies. Smoothing mechanisms are absent due to the fear that...
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aiming for two per cent inflation over the medium term”, with “symmetric commitment” to this target. “Symmetry means that the … therefore analyse this policy strategy through a model of inflation target zone, with a central value and symmetric upper and … lower bounds on inflation, within which the central bank may decide not to intervene, provided inflation is expected to …
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This paper examines the bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Malaysia, a country with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks, over the period 1994:01-2015:06. A two-regime threshold vector autoregression (TVAR) model is estimated to take into account...
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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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