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There seems to be a widespread belief among economists, policy-makers, and members of the media that the "confidence'" of households and businesses is a critical component in the transmission of fiscal policy shocks into economic activity. We take this proposition to the data using standard...
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are consistent across approaches and most likely medium. Alternative monetary policy shock measures from estimated Taylor …
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activity and inflation as latent variables. We incorporate these latent variables into a factor-augmented vector autoregression … activity and inflation, consistent with previous studies. In contrast to much of the literature, however, we find that central …-bank-determined changes in Chinese interest rates also have substantial impacts on economic activity and inflation, while other measures of …
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external instruments produce responses in output and inflation consistent with both textbook theory and conventional monetary …
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draw some implications for timing between monetary expansion and inflation, inter-country comparisons of inflation rates … lead inflation in the sense that money Granger-causes prices without feedback, contradicting an implication of the monetary … of inflation during the fixed exchange rate period, providing no evidence for a generalized "law of one price." (3) Some …
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consumption and asset price response to such a shock and show that country differences are associated with the level of the …
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Recent macroeconomic experience has drawn attention to the importance of interdependence among countries through financial markets and institutions, independently of traditional trade linkages. This paper develops a model of the international transmission of shocks due to interdependent...
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In this paper I use weekly data from seven emerging nations - four in Latin America and three in Asia - to investigate the extent to which changes in Fed policy interest rates have been transmitted into domestic short term interest rates during the 2000s. The results suggest that there is indeed...
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estimate a fully specified model that replicates well the dynamic response of output, inflation, and the federal funds rate to …
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Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on stock returns in narrow windows around press releases by the Federal Reserve. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct effect and an indirect (network) effect. We attribute 50%-85% of the...
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