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impact inflation, little crowding out of private expenditure exists, and the multiplier tends to be larger compared to a one …
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the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the … strict to an average inflation targeting framework especially benefits workers with lower labor force attachment. …
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consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead … inflation expectations and spending today. We find households' inflation expectations and readiness to spend react substantially …
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inflation. Hence, the initial response of inflation to monetary shocks is not sufficient to discriminate across models and for …
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We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision … experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are … concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while many households know about inflation eroding nominal assets, most are …
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study the causal effect of unconventional fiscal policies on consumption expenditure via the inflation-expectations channel … (VAT) effective in 2007. This shock increased German households' inflation expectations during 2006, as well as actual … inflation in 2007. Matched households in other European countries serve as counterfactuals in a difference …
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We construct a slope factor from changes in federal funds futures of different horizons. Slope predicts stock returns at the weekly frequency: faster monetary policy easing positively predicts excess returns. Investors can achieve increases in weekly Sharpe ratios of 20% conditioning on the...
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We document a large return drift around monetary policy announcements by the Federal Open Market Committee. Stock returns start drifting up 25 days before expansionary monetary policy surprises, whereas they decrease before contractionary surprises. The cumulative return difference across...
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We study how different forms of communication influence the inflation expectations of individuals in a randomized … controlled trial. We first solicit individuals' inflation expectations in the Nielsen Homescan panel and then provide eight … different forms of information regarding inflation. Reading the actual Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) statement has about …
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Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...
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