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We estimate a multi-country multi-sector New Keynesian model to quantify the drivers of domestic inflation during 2020 …-2023 in several countries, including the United States. The model matches observed inflation together with sector-level prices … and wages. We further measure the relative importance of different types of shocks on inflation across countries over time …
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contributed to financial instability during 1790-1933, and that inflation rate shocks contributed to financial instability during …
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Twenty five years after the publication of the second edition, this paper describes and evaluates the Contributions to monetary and macroeconomics made in Don Patinkin's Money, Interest, and Prices (MIP). Its first accomplishment was to settle definitively many issues, such as the valid and...
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This paper reconsiders a result obtained by Sargent and Wallace, namely, that price level indeterminacy obtains in their well-known model if the monetary authorities adopt a policy feedback rule for the interest rate rather than the money stock. Since the Federal Reserve seems often to have used...
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Nirei and Scheinkman (2021) proposed an equilibrium model of price adjustments with menu-costs with a finite number of firms and derived a "reproduction number" for repricing and a limit functional form for the distribution of the number of simultaneously price-adjusting firms. We show that the...
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fraction of price changes increases with inflation. They also predict implausibly large menu costs and misallocation in the …
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tax and transfer systems. With constant primary deficits, there exist two steady-states, and the price level and inflation … in the long-run real interest rate, leading to higher inflation for any given monetary policy. Our work highlights the … role of household heterogeneity and market incompleteness in determining inflation …
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inflation, building on our earlier work for the United States. Globally, as in the United States, pandemic-era inflation was due … bank inflation targets. As the effects of supply shocks have subsided, tight labor markets, and the rises in nominal wages …, have become relatively more important sources of inflation in many countries. In several countries, including the United …
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We leverage the inflation upswing of 2022 and various granular datasets to identify robust price-setting patterns … for interpreting recent inflation dynamics …
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policy-induced variations in stock returns. Finally, monetary contractions have a larger impact on consumption in Germany and …
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