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Using daily inflation data from the Billion Prices Project [Cavallo and Rigobon (2016)], we show how temporal … private agents and the central bank (the “Fed information effect”). We find that the adverse response of daily inflation to … and an unobserved components model of inflation dynamics. To reconcile how one can obtain a sizable adverse response with …
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Inflation-indexed securities would appear to be the most direct source of information about inflation expectations and … real interest rates" (Bernanke, 2004). In this paper we study the term structure of real interest rates, expected inflation … and inflation risk premia using data on prices of Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) over the period 2000 …
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strengthen the countercyclical behavior of markups and attenuate the response of inflation to fluctuations in output …
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properly accounts for asset pricing facts. I find that the Ramsey optimal monetary policy yields an inflation rate above 3 ….5% and inflation volatility close to 1.5%. The same model calibrated to a counterfactually low equity premium implies an … optimal inflation rate close to zero and inflation volatility less than 10 basis points, consistent with much of the existing …
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This paper investigates the effect of the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy on employment via a bank lending channel. We find that banks with higher mortgage-backed securities holdings issued relatively more loans after the first and third rounds of quantitative easing (QE1 and...
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We consider what, if any, relationship there is between monetary aggregates and inflation, and whether there is any … paribus unitary relationship between inflation and money growth. Simulations of a New Keynesian model suggest that we should … allowance needed for the phase shift in the relationship between monetary growth rates and inflation. While financial innovation …
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Since Kydland and Prescott (1977) and Barro and Gordon (1983), most studies of the problem of the inflation bias …-quadratic approach to the problem in favor of a projection method approach. We investigate the size of the inflation bias that arises in … a microfounded nonlinear environment with Calvo price setting. The inflation bias is found to lie between 1% and 6% for …
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This paper studies the welfare consequences of exogenous variations in trend inflation in a New Keynesian economy …. Consumption and leisure respond asymmetrically to a rise and a decline in trend inflation. As a result, an increase in the … variance of shocks to the trend inflation process decreases welfare not only by increasing the volatilities of consumption and …
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examines the usefulness of these estimates for inflation forecasting. Over this period, we find that the Federal Reserve … estimation techniques. In contrast to previous work, we also find no deterioration in forecast performance when inflation …
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Consumer price inflation excluding food and energy often performs worse than other measures of underlying inflation in … out-of-sample tests of predicting future inflation or tracking an ex-post measure of underlying trend inflation …. Nonetheless, inflation excluding food and energy remains popular for its simplicity and transparency. Would excluding different …
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