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Understanding the sources of inflation persistence is crucial for monetary policy. This paper provides an empirical assessment of the influence of inflation expectations' anchoring on the persistence of inflation. We construct a novel index of inflation expectations' anchoring using survey-based...
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-output process that arise from convexity in the Phillips curve and endogenous monetary policy credibility. We find that the dynamic … extended model does a much better job in accounting for the deterioration in monetary policy credibility and the output costs … of regaining monetary policy credibility once it has been lost …
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monetary policy credibility and then tests if such measures improve the out-of-sample forecasts of conventional models of the …
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credibility. In our setting, central bank credibility is proportional to the deviation of inflation expectations from the … announced inflation target, with positive deviations being more costly compared to negative ones. A loss in policy credibility …. We find that the extended model with credibility effects matches well the key macroeconomic data over specific past …
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We study the optimal design of a disinflation plan by a planner who lacks commitment. Having announced a plan, the Central banker faces a tradeoff between surprise inflation and building reputation, defined as the private sector's belief that the Central bank is committed to the plan. Some plans...
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This paper focuses on the role of debt maturity in managing the government’s incentives to use opportunistic inflation to reduce the ex post real value of its nominal liabilities. The maturity structure of government debt is shown to be a powerful instrument to affect the time profile of the...
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credibility is more costly under predetermined exchange rates because the real effects are more pronounced …
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-prices model. Under full credibility, a reduction in the rate of devaluation results in an immediate and permanent reduction in the …
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This paper asks whether inflation targeting improves economic performance, as measured by the behavior of inflation, output, and interest rates. We compare 7 OECD countries that adopted inflation targeting in the early 1990s to 13 that did not. After the early 1990s, performance improved along...
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This paper presents an empirical measure of disinflation credibility and discusses its evolution in Turkey since the … 2001 crisis. The results indicate that credibility has improved markedly over this period, boding well for the future of …
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