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This paper explores whether different funding structures-including the source, instrument, currency, and counterparty location of funding-affected the extent of financial stress experienced in various countries and sectors during the Covid-19 spread in early 2020. We measure financial stress...
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This paper studies the sensitivity of Canadian producer prices to the Canada-U.S. exchange rate. Using a unique product-level price data set, we estimate and analyze the impact of movements in the exchange rate on both domestic and export producer prices. First, we find that both domestic and...
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inflation and output dynamics in the United States. In particular, I find that real money balance effects are quantitatively …
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The long-run relation between growth and inflation has not yet been studied in the context of nominal price and wage … integrate staggered price- and wage-setting into an endogenous growth framework. In this setting, growth and inflation are … linked via the incentive to innovate. For standard calibrations, the linkage is strong: as trend inflation shifts from -5 to …
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We examine the relative ability of simple inflation targeting (IT) and price level targeting (PLT) monetary policy … rules to minimize both inflation variability and business cycle fluctuations in Canada for shocks that have important … persistent cost-push pressures in the economy leading to a significant deterioration in the inflation - output gap trade …
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to estimate how price increases can be divided between quality growth and price inflation. I find that less than one … inflation close to inflation measured by the official index. I conclude that, according to Bils' methodology, the quality bias … is not an important source of potential mismeasurement of CPI inflation in Canada. …
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We examine the extent to which vertical and horizontal market structure can together explain incomplete retail pass-through. To answer this question, we use scanner data from a large U.S. retailer to estimate product level pass-through for three different vertical structures: national brands,...
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U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation …
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Inflation dynamics in advanced countries have produced two consecutive puzzles during the years after the global … financial crisis. The first puzzle emerged when inflation rates over the period 2009-11 were consistently higher than expected … today - was initially observed in 2012, when inflation rates in advanced countries were weakening rapidly despite the …
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expectation formation and the behaviour of macroeconomic agents. Inflation expectations, in particular, have received a great deal … be used to extract useful measures of inflation persistence. This paper presents a new measure of U.S. inflation … persistence from the point of view of a professional forecaster, referred to as perceived inflation persistence. It is built via …
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