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credibility EBRS is associated with overheating and current account deficits, IRRs give rise to somewhat opposite results … costs infringed by imperfect credibility …
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outside these rate-of-return bands can be used as a simple test of exchange rate credibility, under the assumption of …
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We define and study transparency, credibility, and reputation in a model where the central bank's characteristics are … unobservable to the private sector and are inferred from the policy outcome. A low-credibility bank optimally conducts a more … inflationary policy than a high-credibility bank, in the sense that it induces higher inflation, but a less expansionary policy in …
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credibility of the central bank. In contrast, conducting monetary policy with a flexible inflation target rule is likely to …
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This paper determines the real effects of credible disinflation when price setting is staggered. The results are surprising: a fairly quick disinflation causes a boom. This finding suggests that nominal price rigidity alone does not explain why disinflation is costly in actual economies
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We use the limited participation model of money as a laboratory for studying the operating characteristics of Taylor rules for setting the rate of interest. Rules are evaluated according to their ability to protect the economy from bad outcomes such as the burst of inflation observed in the...
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inflation inertia can emerge: the interaction between lack of credibility of government monetary policy announcements and the …. Lack of credibility is then shown to lead to output losses during a disinflation program. We demonstrate the effects of … during disinflation programs with and without price controls and the influence of credibility problems. We discuss nominal …
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Estimates of the cost of disinflation made before the recent reduction in the inflation rate varied widely. Estimates were made in terms of the sacrifice ratio -- the percentage points of GNP at an annual rate lost per percentage point reduction in the inflation rate. At one extreme it was...
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uncertain credibility. We consider an economy producing exportable and importable goods. The economy is liberalized, and tariffs … are eliminated. The public views the reform credibility as questionable, and expects the possibility of future policy …
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This paper develops a model of inflation inertia based on optimizing forward looking staggered price setting in a small open economy. Unlike in current models of sticky prices, transitions to a lower steady state inflation rate take time even if they are fully credible, and they are associated...
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