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A relation between inflation and the path of average marginal cost (often measured by unit labor cost) implied by the … is shown to again take the standard "new-Keynesian" form, but with an elasticity of inflation with respect to real …
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appointment of Volcker marked a change in the conduct of monetary policy, but inflation dropped only when fiscal policy … accommodated this change two years later. In fact, a disinflationary attempt of the monetary authority leads to more inflation if … been confident about the switch, the Great Inflation would not have occurred and debt would have been higher. This is …
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with a modest and protracted decline in inflation, following the rise in financial stress in 2008Q4. The model does so even … though inflation remains very dependent on the evolution of economic activity and of monetary policy …
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Most wage-contracting models with rational expectations fail to replicate the persistence in inflation observed in the … data. We argue that coordination problems and multiple equilibria are the keys to explaining inflation persistence. We … thus rational. Based on quarterly U.S. data over the period 1955-2000, we find evidence that inflation is more persistent …
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innovations, and negatively correlated with inflation innovations. The disinflationary nature of news shocks is consistent with …
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for the unemployment-inflation tradeoff and for the conduct of monetary policy.lt;brgt;lt;brgt;We proceed in two steps. We … staggered price setting by firms. We derive the relation between inflation and unemployment and discuss how it is influenced by … the presence of labor market frictions and real wage rigidities. We show the nature of the tradeoff between inflation and …
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framework that allowed the high inflation of the 1970s. Second, I consider whether models of inflation determination with no … monetary policy strategy of the empirical evidence for a long-run relationship between money growth and inflation. And fourth …, I consider reasons why a monetary policy strategy based solely on short-run inflation forecasts derived from a Phillips …
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Most central banks perceive a trade-off between stabilizing inflation and stabilizing the gap between output and … inflation is equivalent to stabilizing the welfare-relevant output gap. In this paper, we argue that this property of the new … a trade-off between stabilizing inflation and stabilizing the welfare-relevant output gap. We show that not only does …
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The paper extends Woodford's (2000) analysis of the closed economy Phillips curve to an open economy with both commodity trade and capital mobility. We show that consumption smoothing, which comes with the opening of the capital market, raises the degree of strategic complementarity among...
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The paper specifies a disequilibrium model for the aggregate labor market consisting of demand and supply functions for labor, an adjustment equation for wages as well as for prices, a transactions equation and, finally, an equation that relates measured unemployment to vacancies and to excess...
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