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Carbon pricing and inflation expectations : evidence from France
Hensel, Jannik; Mangiante, Giacomo; Moretti, Luca - 2023
This paper examines the impact of carbon pricing on firms' inflation expectations and its implications for central banks' price stability mandate. Carbon policy shocks are identified using high-frequency identification and combined with French firm-level survey data. A change in carbon price...
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Strategic inattention, inflation dynamics, and the non-neutrality of money
Afrouzi, Hassan - 2020
How does competition affect information acquisition of firms and thus the response of inflation and output to monetary policy shocks? This paper addresses these questions in a new dynamic general equilibrium model with both dynamic rational inattention and oligopolistic competition. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200269
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Point targets, tolerance bands, or target ranges? : inflation target types and the anchoring of inflation expectations
Ehrmann, Michael - 2021
Inflation targeting is implemented in different ways – most often by adopting point targets, by having tolerance bands around a point target, or by specifying target ranges. Using data for 20 economies, this paper tests whether the various target types affect the anchoring of inflation...
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Monetary policy communications and their effects on household inflation expectations
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2019
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....
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Breaking monetary policy news : the role of mass media coverage of ECB announcements for public inflation expectations
Hirsch, Patrick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023
Using the variation in national television news of four major member states in the Eurozone, we find causal effects of coverage of high-frequency identified monetary policy announcements on households' inflation expectations in an event study and a generalized Difference-in-Differences approach...
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Functional shocks to inflation expectations and real interest rates and their macroeconomic effects
Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2023
This paper applies a recently developed method (Inoue and Rossi, 2021) to estimate functional inflation expectations and ex-ante real interest rate shocks, and then examines their macroeconomic effects in the context of a Functional Vector Autoregressive model with exogenous variables...
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Inflation literacy, inflation expectations, and trust in the central bank : a survey experiment
Dräger, Lena; Giang Hong Nghiem - 2023
This paper studies the causal effect of inflation literacy on inflation expectations and trust in the central bank using a randomized control trial (RCT) on a representative sample of the German population. In an experiment with two steps, we first test the effect of non-numerical information...
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Regional heterogeneity, the rise of public debt and monetary policy in post-bubbles Japan : lessons for the EMU
Fischer, Raphael; Schnabl, Gunther - 2016
, which have been followed by a lasting crisis. The paper analyses the role of a high degree of regional heterogeneity for … public debt and monetary policy in the context of crisis. It is shown for Japan that the attempts to maintain regional … across Japanese regions pre- and post-crisis. The side condition is monetary expansion. A similar effect could emerge in …
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One country, one vote? : labor market structure and voting rights in the ECB
Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten - 2004
The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...
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Did the fed surprise the markets in 2001? : a case study for VARs with sign restrictions
Uhlig, Harald - 2001
In 2001, the Fed has lowered interest rates in a series of cuts, starting from 6.5 per cent at the end of 2000 to 2.0 per cent by early November. This paper asks, whether the Federal Reserve Bank has been surprising the markets, taking as given the conventional view about the effect of monetary...
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