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Pacific Islands countries are vulnerable to commodity price shocks, and this poses challenges to monetary policy. The high degree of exchange rate pass-through to headline inflation and the weak monetary transmission mechanism in PICs suggest a greater efficacy of exchange rate changes in...
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If monetary policy is to aim also at financial stability, how would it change? To analyze this question, this paper develops a general-form framework. Financial stability objectives are shown to make monetary policy more aggressive: in reaction to negative shocks, cuts are deeper but...
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This paper provides new evidence of the effect of monetary policy shocks on income inequality. Using a measure of unanticipated changes in policy rates for a panel of 32 advanced and emerging market countries over the period 1990-2013, the paper finds that contractionary (expansionary) monetary...
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(source) economies on output and demand components in a large group of (recipient) countries, under different monetary policy …
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statistically significant output effect under floating exchange rate regimes. For the estimation of the output effects of fiscal …What do we know about the output effects of fiscal policy in low income countries (LICs)? There are very few empirical … studies on the subject. This paper fills this gap by estimating the output effects of government spending shocks in LICs. Our …
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source of macroeconomic fluctuation. We derive a measure of output gap that accounts for frictions in financial market … inflations but fails to alleviate the output gap volatility. This suggests a role for macroprudential policies …
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giant oil discoveries as a directly observable measure of news shocks about future output - the delay between a discovery …
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We study negative interest rate policy (NIRP) exploiting ECB's NIRP introduction and administrativedata from Italy, severely hit by the Eurozone crisis. NIRP has expansionary effects on credit supply---and hence the real economy---through a portfolio rebalancing channel. NIRP affects banks...
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was not the result of weak demand (there has been no shift along the Okun curve), but of a decline in potential output … growth. Moreover, low interest rates will lead to an increase in the capital output ratio, a low return on capital and high …
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We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....
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