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This paper takes up the issue of the flexibility of inflation targeting regimes, with the specific goal of determining … whether the monetary policy of the Bank of England, which has a formal inflation target, has been any less flexible than that … of the Federal Reserve, which does not have such a target. The empirical analysis uses the speed of inflation forecast …
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One of the main concerns associated with central bank digital currencies (CBDC) is the disintermediating effect on the banking sector in general, and the risk of bank runs in times of crisis in particular. This paper examines the implications of an interest-bearing CBDC on banking crises in a...
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I study whether monetary gold hoarding was the main cause of the Great Depression in a structural VAR analysis. The notion that monetary forces played an important role in bringing about the depression is well established in the narrative literature, but has more recently met some skepticism by...
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fiscal stance and inflation using crosscountry data from 1965 to 1999. In a first step, we contrast the monetary … that the low-frequency relationship between the fiscal stance and inflation is low during periods of an independent central … illustrate the mechanisms through which fiscal actions affect inflation in the long run. The findings from the DSGE model suggest …
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We estimate the low-frequency relationship between fiscal deficits and inflation and pay special attention to its … suggest that the low-frequency relationship between fiscal deficits and inflation is strongly related to the conduct of … monetary policy and its interaction with fiscal policy after World War II. -- Time-Varying VAR ; Inflation ; Public Deficits …
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inflation responses and a breakdown of divinecoincidence. The central bank's contemporaneous trade-off between output gap … andinflation stabilization is aggravated. Optimal monetary policy is strongly forward-looking and geared towards inflation …
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The European Central Bank's asset purchase programs, while intended to stabilize the economy, may have unintended side effects on financial stability. This paper aims at gauging the effects on financial markets, the banking sector, and lending to non-financial firms. Using a structural vector...
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The dynamic effects of ECB announcements, disentangled into pure monetary policy and central bank information shocks, on the euro (EUR) exchange rate are examined using a Bayesian Proxy Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model fed with high-frequency data. Contractionary monetary policy shocks result...
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objectives and strategies for aligning the public's inflation expectations with their own and, consequently, improving the … influence inflation expectations is thus important. We shed light on these issues by relying on a representative survey …. And greater trust in the ECB and Bundesbank, in turn, lowers individuals' inflation expectations. More specifically …
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Policy Committee meetings and the Inflation Report significantly affect near-term interest rate expectations, an effect …
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