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the combination of economic policies adopted by the two key economies, the US and China. Global financial markets served … economic policies followed by emerging markets such as China and the oil-exporting countries contributed to the US ability to …. Moreover, our analysis has shown that liquidity will first show up in asset price inflation and only later in consumer goods …
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Monetary policy rules have been considered as fundamental protection against inflation. However, empirical evidence for … a correlation between rules and inflation is relatively weak. In this paper, we first discuss likely causes for this …
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The integration of China into the global economy is one of the most spectacular events in economic history. This paper … investigates to what extent this process affects output growth and inflation in the advanced countries. A GVAR model is specified … to explore interdependencies between business cycles in China and industrial countries, including the US, the euro area …
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The paper analyses the global spillovers of the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy measures. First, we find that Fed measures in the early phase of the crisis (QE1), but not since 2010 (QE2), were highly effective in lowering sovereign yields and raising equity markets in the US...
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After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central Bank decided to purchase European government bonds - to ensure an orderly monetary policy transmission mechanism. Many observers argued that, by bond purchases, national fiscal policies could from...
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This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries. We use quarterly data in the 1980.1-2005.4 period and exclude EMU countries. Our Taylor-rule specification focuses on the interactions of a new time-variant index of central bank independence with...
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useful information about variables such as commodity prices which matter for aggregate demand and thus inflation. Given this …
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strongly than in the rational model after an inflationary supply shock to fully stabilize inflation. While fully stabilizing … inflation keeps output at potential, higher real interest rates mainly benefit wealthy households and increase the cost of …
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estimating the effect on overall headline inflation, we examine effects on its 12 main sub-indices and further sub-categories of … food price inflation. This allows us to disentangle differences in the direction and strength of price effects across … consumption categories. Our results suggest significant positive effects of natural disasters on overall headline inflation, with …
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American (LA) countries and the four largest economies in the world (namely the US, the Euro area, Japan and China) over the …
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