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This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of … Survey to answer questions on the importance and determinants of credibility. The results of both surveys are very comparable …. Credibility is considered to be important to attain price stability at low cost, while the best ways to earn credibility are a …
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We welfare rank various tax-spending policies. The setup is a New Keynesian model of a semi-small open economy featuring sovereign risk premia and loss of monetary policy independence. The model is calibrated to match data from the Italian economy 2001-2011. We compute various optimized...
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In the revised monetary policy strategy of the European Central Bank (ECB), "price stability is best maintained by aiming for two per cent inflation over the medium term", with "symmetric commitment" to this target. "Symmetry means that the Governing Council considers negative and positive...
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, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the … parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France … former country this applies both to the zero and the seasonal frequencies, in the case of Italy the nonstationarity comes …
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changes in France, Germany and Italy. …
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The enlargement of the European Monetary Union is likely to lead to an increase in uncertainty regarding the transmission of monetary policy for the larger union. Adding new members to the central bank council will in addition imply that the policy reaction of the enlarged council will be...
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This paper looks at how the reputation of a monetary policy making committee is jointly determined with the reputations of its individual members. I ask whether individuals ha ve more or less incentive to gain a reputation for being tough on inflation when they are part of a group. I examine the...
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projection model for the Euro Area (aggregate data), Germany, Italy, and Portugal, we analyze the interaction between both …
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whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …
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