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Nakata, Taisuke; Schmidt, Sebastian; Yoo, Paul - 2021

The zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint on interest rates makes speed limit policies (SLPs)—policies aimed at stabilizing output growth—less effective. Away from the ZLB, the history dependence induced by a concern for output growth stabilization improves the inflation-output tradeoff for a...

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Optimal Monetary Policy Rules with Labor Market Frictions

Faia, Ester - 2021

This paper studies optimal monetary policy rules in a framework with sticky prices, matching frictions and real wage rigidities. Optimal monetary policy is given by a constrained Ramsey plan in which the monetary authority maximizes the agents' welfare subject to the competitive economy...

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Quantitative Goals for Monetary Policy

Fatás, Antonio; Mihov, Ilian; Rose, Andrew - 2021

We study empirically the macroeconomic effects of an explicit de jure quantitative goal for monetary policy. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyze the effects on inflation of both having a quantitative target, and of hitting a...

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Negative Interest Rates, Excess Liquidity and Retail Deposits : Banks’ Reaction to Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

Demiralp, Selva - 2019

' funding structures jointly with that in their excess liquidity holdings. We find evidence that banks highly exposed to the …, importantly, the explicit consideration of the role of excess liquidity in our analysis …

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Negative Interest Rates, Excess Liquidity and Retail Deposits : Banks’ Reaction to Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

Demiralp, Selva; Eisenschmidt, Jens; Vlassopoulos, Thomas - 2021

reliance on retail deposit funding and the level of excess liquidity holdings may increase banks’ responsiveness to NIRP. We … segments. We are the first to document the importance of banks’ excess liquidity holdings for the effectiveness of NIRP …, pointing to a strong complementarity of NIRP with central bank liquidity injections, e.g. via asset purchases …

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Assessing the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix in the Euro Area

Bańkowski, Krzysztof; Christoffel, Kai; Faria, Thomas - 2021

This paper attempts to gauge the effects of various fiscal and monetary policy rules on macroeconomic outcomes in the euro area. It consists of two major parts – a historical assessment and an assessment based on an extended scenario until 2030 – and it builds on the ECB-BASE –a...

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Monetary policy with judgment: forecast targeting

Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2005

“Forecast targeting,” forward-looking monetary policy that uses central-bank judgment to construct optimal policy projections of the target variables and the instrument rate, may perform substantially better than monetary policy that disregards judgment and follows a given instrument rule....

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The Growth Impact of Discretionary Fiscal Policy Measures

Attinasi, Maria Grazia - 2014

This paper looks at the impact of discretionary fiscal policy on economic growth for a sample of 18 EU countries over the period 1998-2011. The main novelty of this paper is the use, on the revenue side, of a dataset of fiscal measures based on the yield of actual legislative and budgetary...

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Robust Monetary Rules under Unstructured and Structured Model Uncertainty

Levine, Paul - 2008

This paper compares two contrasting approaches to robust monetary policy design. The first developed by Hansen and Sargent (2003, 2007) assumes unstructured model uncertainty and uses a minimax robustness criterion to design monetary rules. This contrasts with an older literature that structures...

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Evolving U.S. Monetary Policy and the Decline of Inflation Predictability

Benati, Luca - 2007

Using a structural VAR with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility on post-WWII U.S. data, we document a striking negative correlation between the evolution of the long-run coefficient on inflation in the monetary rule and the evolution of the persistence and predictability of...

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