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Assessing Australian monetary policy in the twenty-first century
Gross, Isaac; Leigh, Andrew - 2022
Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in … high during 2016-2019, keeping inflation below the Reserve Bank's target band. Optimal monetary policy in 2016-2019 would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373260
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Australia: the miracle economy
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
the OECD countries, Australia did not even have a recession. In this paper we study the behaviour of the Australian … economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are … made in terms of several macroeconomic indicators, GDP, Unemployment, Inflation, Current Account Balances, and debt. …
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Effectives of monetary policy under the high and low economic uncertainty states: evidence from the major Asian economies
Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2021
This study examines the monetary policy effectiveness of five major Asian countries (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) using a quantile vector autoregression (QVAR) model-based spillover estimation approach of Balcilar et al. (2020b) at different quantile paths. To do this, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549189
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A tacit monetary policy of the Gulf countries : is there a remittances channel?
Termos, Ali; Genc, Ismail H.; Naufal, George - 2015
The strong economic ties between the GCC economies and the U.S. are manifested in three ways: currency peg, coupling of monetary policy, and the adoption of the U.S. dollar as the trading currency for oil. This paper examines how these dynamics result in a misalignment of the U.S. monetary...
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A theory of non-Coasean labor markets
Blanco, Andres; Drenik, Andres; Moser, Christian; … - 2023
We develop a theory of labor markets in a monetary economy with four realistic features: search frictions, worker productivity shocks, wage rigidity, and two-sided lack of commitment. Due to the non-Coasean nature of labor contracts, inefficient job separations occur in the form of endogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278008
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What measure of inflation should a developing country central bank target?
Anand, Rahul; Prasad, Eswar S.; Zhang, Boyang - 2015
In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize … is high. We develop an open economy model with incomplete financial markets to show that headline inflation targeting … headline inflation, assigns zero weight to import prices. …
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The role of real wage rigidity and labor market frictions for unemployment and inflation dynamics
Christoffel, Kai (contributor); Linzert, Tobias (contributor) - 2005
employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation … ; matching models ; labor market search ; inflation persistence ; real wage rigidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003227218
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Does policy communication during COVID-19 work?
Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
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Extraordinary labor market developments and the 2022-23 disinflation
Davis, Steven J. - 2024
Two extraordinary U.S. labor market developments facilitated the sharp disinflation in 2022-23 without raising the unemployment rate. First, pandemic-driven infection worries and social distancing intentions caused a sizable drag on labor force participation that began to reverse in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550371
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Economics and epidemics: evidence from an estimated spatial Econ-SIR model
Bognanni, Mark; Hanley, Douglas; Kolliner, Daniel; … - 2020
Economic analysis of effective policies for managing epidemics requires an integrated economic and epidemiological approach. We develop and estimate a spatial, micro-founded model of the joint evolution of economic variables and the spread of an epidemic. We empirically discipline the model...
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