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innovations, and negatively correlated with inflation innovations. The disinflationary nature of news shocks is consistent with …
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fluctuations associated with these events are also discussed, as is their role in the recent surge of inflation, with a particular …
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A standard statistical perspective on the U.S. Great Inflation is that it involves an increase in the stochastic trend … rate of inflation, defined as the long-term forecast of inflation at each point in time. That perspective receives support …, and statistical studies of U.S. inflation dynamics. We show that a textbook macroeconomic model delivers such a stochastic …
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The decline of velocity in the 1980s is a surprise that should not have been. Economists unwisely relied on a velocity trend of 3 percent per year when they should have insisted on an economic explanation for rising velocity. An analysis of velocity and interest rates from 1915 to 1986 suggests...
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We argue that the Great Inflation experienced by both the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1970s has an … common doctrine underlying the systematic monetary policy choices in each country. The nonmonetary approach to inflation …
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This paper surveys the literature since 1993 on pseudo out-of-sample evaluation of inflation forecasts in the United …
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account. We find that historical adjustment of eligibility ages for age inflation would have increased ages of eligibility by …
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We study the long-run relation between money, measured by inflation or interest rates, and unemployment. We first …
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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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The standard view of the political economy of public debt is that myopic and unconstrained politicians prefer to disregard intertemporal smoothing considerations and extract political rents as fast as possible. From this perspective, it seems that the world has much to celebrate, as most...
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