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-side flexibility are indeed the main channel through which monetary policy lowers the volatility of inflation and, even more …
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This paper proposes a new method of estimating the Taylor rule with a time-varying implicit inflation target and a time …-varying natural rate of interest. The inflation target and the natural rate are modeled as random walks and are estimated using …
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We analyse optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a New-Keynesian model with public debt and inflation persistence … striking result is not true with high degrees of inflation persistence. Secondly, we show that optimal fiscal policy is more … active under discretion than commitment at all degrees of inflation persistence and all levels of debt. …
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of inflation targeting (IT) affects spreads. It is hypothesized that country risk premia for IT countries (especially … stable long-term inflation. The findings suggest that IT reduces the risk premium, both through adoption of the IT regime …, and through the observed track record in stabilizing inflation. …
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The recent global financial crisis illustrates that financial frictions are a significant source of volatility in the economy. This paper investigates monetary policy stabilization in an environment where financial frictions are a relevant source of macroeconomic fluctuation. We derive a measure...
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-fledged inflation targeting regimes in place or have recently adopted them, using an array of methodologies commonly used in the … that the interest rate gap can be a good predictor of future inflation dynamics and economic growth. In addition, looking …
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The large swings in world food prices in recent years renew interest in the question of how monetary policy in small open economies should react to such imported price shocks. We examine this issue in a canonical open economy setting with sticky prices and where food plays a distinctive role in...
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inflation than output growth. Our estimated dynamic policy coefficients characterize the style of policy as a "bang …
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This paper studies the optimal design of monetary policy in an optimizing two-country sticky price model. We suppose that the production sequence of final consumption goods stretches across both countries and is associated with vertical trade. Prices of final consumption goods are sticky in the...
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This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
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