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inflation targeter early in this period but began to pay less attention to inflation after 2009. Loss of the strong nominal …
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A central bank digital currency, or CBDC, may provide an attractive alternative to traditional demand deposits held in private banks. When offering CBDC accounts, the central bank needs to confront classic issues of banking: conducting maturity transformation while providing liquidity to private...
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negatively correlated with inflation and inflation variance across countries. But the cross-country approach has been criticised … economy, higher output and somewhat lower inflation. We also investigate the interaction between the central bank and the …
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This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...
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What is the optimal institutional structure for an independent central bank? The paper shows when it will be optimal for a country to have a central bank to be organized according to federal, purely national or a combination of both aspects. The analysis is then extended to a supranational...
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estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of … the euro. Real economic growth as well as median wage developments are reexamined in light of the alternative inflation …
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economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments that the flexible exchange rate has undermined real economic …
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This paper studies the challenge that increasing the inflation target poses to equilibrium determinacy in a medium …-sized New Keynesian model without indexation fitted to the Great Moderation era. For moderate targets of the inflation rate …
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In a standard New Keynesian model, a myopic central bank concerned with stabilizing inflation and changes in the output … stabilizing output gap changes, the central bank imparts inertia into output and inflation that is absent under pure discretion … social outcomes if it focuses on inflation and changes in the output gap than are achieved under inflation targeting. …
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changing effectiveness of the Bank of Japan's Quantitative Easing policies over time. We analyse the Zero-Interest Rate Policy …
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