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Inflation Targeting and Output Growth : Empirical Evidence for the European Union

International Monetary Fund - 2005

This paper evaluates the performance of two alternative policy rules, a forward-looking rule and a spontaneous adjustment rule, under alternative inflation targets, in terms of output losses in a macroeconomic model, using European Union data. The simulations suggest that forward-looking rules...

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Inflation Targeting in Dollarized Economies

Leiderman, Leonardo - 2006

The shift to inflation targeting has contributed to the relatively low inflation observed in some emerging market economies although, as noted by many economists, the preconditions required for a successful implementation were not in place. The existence of managed exchange rate regimes, a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402285

Excess Liquidity and the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy : Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Saxegaard, Magnus - 2006

This paper examines the pattern of excess liquidity in sub-Saharan Africa and its consequences for the effectiveness of … monetary policy. The paper argues that understanding the consequences of excess liquidity requires quantifying the extent to … which commercial bank holdings of excess liquidity exceed levels required for precautionary purposes. It proposes a …

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Global liquidity transmission to emerging market economies, and their policy responses

Choi, Woon Gyu; Kang, Taesu; Kim, Geun Young; Lee, Byongju - 2017

This paper distills and identifies global liquidity (GL) momenta from the macro-financial data of advanced economies … factor-augmented VAR, we investigate responses of emerging market economies (EMEs) to GL shocks. A policy-driven liquidity …

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Output gap uncertainty and real-time monetary policy

Grigoli, Francesco; Herman, Alexander; Swiston, Andrew; … - 2015

Output gap estimates are subject to a wide range of uncertainty owing to data revisions and the difficulty in distinguishing between cycle and trend in real time. This is important given the central role in monetary policy of assessments of economic activity relative to capacity. We show that...

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Inflation Targeting in the United Kingdom : Information Content of Financial and Monetary Variables

Baumgartner, Josef - 1996

The main objective of this paper is to identify a set of leading indicators of inflation for the United Kingdom, and discuss the conceptual issues pertaining to inflation targeting. The main conclusions are that narrow money has strong leading indicator properties for inflation, while broad...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396188

Explicit and Implicit Targets in Open Economies

Sgherri, Silvia - 2005

Under a flexible inflation targeting regime, should policymakers avoid any reaction to movements in the foreign exchange market? Using data for six advanced open economies explicitly targeting inflation, the paper examines empirically whether real exchange rate disequilibria systematically...

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The impact of legislation on credit risk : comparative evidence from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany

Schmieder, Christian; Schmieder, Philipp - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486196

The Impact of Legislationon Credit Risk : Comparative Evidence From the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany

Schmieder, Philipp - 2011

This study investigates the link between bankruptcy and security legislation and potential credit losses faced by banks based on a cross-country study for the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK) and Germany. Focusing on corporate credit, we find that legislation produces the highest...

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Treasury bills and/or central bank bills for absorbing surplus liquidity : the main considerations

Nyawata, Obert - 2012

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