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-implied and statistical density functions to gain insight into deflation risk. Inflation expectations show a decreasing mean but … influence of monetary policy announcements on inflation expectations diminished. Tail events such as deflation although still … uncertainty reveals market participants concerns about possible extreme inflation or deflation outcomes in the future. …
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average inflation targeting (AIT). Inflation expectations significantly increase for the treated individuals. When provided … with additional information about near-term inflation, individuals update their expected inflation path in line with the … difference in medium-term inflation expectations from our survey results. Under AIT, inflation is substantially less volatile and …
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Evidence on the credibility of a central bank's inflation target typically refers to the anchoring of survey …-based measures of inflation expectations. However, both the survey question and the anchoring criteria are only loosely connected to … the actual inflation target used in monetary policy practice. By using the exact wording of the ECB's definition of price …
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We study how households adjust their medium-term inflation expectations under the new ECB strategy. We find that survey … respondents make little difference between the previous strategy of targeting inflation rates close to but below 2% and the new … time, expect somewhat higher medium-term inflation. Respondents asked to assume inflation currently running below target …
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This paper investigates the scarcity effects of quantitative easing (QE) policies, drawing on intra-day transaction-level data for German government bonds, purchased under the Public Sector Purchase Program (PSPP) of the ECB/Eurosystem. This paper is the first to match high-frequency QE purchase...
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The Eurosystem's asset purchase programmes reduced the free float of German Bunds. Market participants feared impaired market functioning in the Bund market and monetary policymakers unintended consequences for monetary policy transmission. We study the intended and unintended consequences of...
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different response on the rate of inflation. Our results show that under fiscal dominance, unconventional monetary policy has … similar effects to conventional monetary policy on inflation because these wealth effects exert downward pressure on prices …
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Yes, indeed; at least for macroeconomic policy interaction. We examine a Neo-Classical economy and provide the conditions for policy arrangements to successfully stabilize the economy when agents have either rational or adaptive expectations. For a contemporaneous-data monetary policy rule, the...
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