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We analyse the implications of asymmetric monetary policy rules by estimating Markovswitching DSGE models for the euro area (EA) and the US. The estimations show that until mid-2014 the ECB's response to in ation was more forceful when in ation was above 2% than below 2%. Since then, the ECB's...
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This paper proposes a tractable New Keynesian (NK) economy with endogenous adjustment in product quality that nests the canonical framework. Endogenous quality choice reduces the slope of the traditional NK Phillips curve and ampliffes the economy's response to productivity shocks. This leads to...
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strengthens the gains from make-up strategies relative to inflation targeting, especially if policy space is reduced. This result … permanent scars on long-run aggregate supply. Make-up strategies not only foster the alignment of inflation with target but also … inherent make-up element is sufficiently pronounced. Inflation is less responsive to monetary policy due to the interaction …
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economic activity, inflation and government debt in face of an occasionally binding lower bound on the nominal interest rate in … policy, the optimal fiscal policy rule features a strong counter-cyclical response to the deviation of inflation from the … inflation significantly improves welfare and reduces the lower-bound frequency. In addition, the optimal simple monetary and …
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We study interest rates transmission to savings at low and negative rates. Exploiting cohorts of consumers from a data-rich multi-country survey, we show how the strength of interest rate transmission to savings varies with the level of nominal interest rates. This response is positive when...
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We show that the announcement of the ECB's Strategy Review and the revision of its inflation target in summer 2021 went … persistent credibility gains, even after inflation increased. …
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policy is not constrained by the ZLB. The neutral rate - the level of the policy rate consistent with stable inflation and …
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inflation targeting result in a binding lower bound one-fourth of the time as well as inflation and output exhibiting large … purchases. Makeup strategies, especially average inflation targeting with a long averaging window, perform better than inflation …
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financial crisis and speeds up exit from the crisis. The downside of coordination is variability in inflation and in the …
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inflation expectations and consumer spending. We document that for the Euro Area and almost all of its constituent countries … this relationship is generally positive: a higher expected change in inflation is associated with an increase in the … probabilities from our micro-level analysis, we indirectly estimate the impact of a gradual increase in inflation expectations on …
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