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This paper extends the existing literature on the uniqueness and stability conditions for an equilibrium under inflation-forecast-based (IFB) rules. It shows that, for a variety of New Keynesian sticky-price and sticky-inflation models, these are a function not just of the degree of...
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This paper analyzes the time-varying credibility of the Fed's inflation target in an empirical macro model with … across monetary policy regimes. I find that imperfect credibility is pronounced during the Volcker Disinflation and to a …
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We study the welfare performance of various simple monetary policy rules under bounded rationality (BR) along the lines of Gabaix (2020) in a New Keynesian model with sticky wages and an effective lower bound (ELB) on interest rates. Policy strategies with a strong history dependence lose their...
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We examine how private sector agents might learn a new monetary strategy that is adopted while at the ELB. Little can be discovered until the economy improves enough that rates would be near liftoff under the old strategy. Recessionary shocks would thus delay learning while large inflationary...
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This paper investigates the determinants of inflation target credibility (ITC) using a unique survey we designed to … measure the credibility of the ECB's inflation target. Containing over 200,000 responses from German consumers collected …. When inflation is below target, however, the credibility of the inflation target cannot be improved by raising the …
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This paper investigates the determinants of inflation target credibility (ITC) using a unique survey we designed to … measure the credibility of the ECB's inflation target. Containing over 200,000 responses from German consumers collected …. When inflation is below target, however, the credibility of the inflation target cannot be improved by raising the …
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