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This paper presents a model that pictures how inflation is determined in a decentralized market process where prices … setters of sequential contracts. An important property of the model is that inflation thus can be explained without any … reference to the quantity of money.Following up the finding that inflation is determined in a coordination game, it is …
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Not since the Great Depression have monetary policy matters and institutions weighed so heavily in commercial, financial, and political arenas. Apart from the eurozone crisis and global monetary policy issues, for nearly two years all else has counted for little more than noise on a relative...
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to support the standard objection to such policies: that they will lead to uncontrollable inflation. Theoretical models … support for a relationship between monetary financing and inflation. The findings lend support to recent calls for explicit …
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The implementation of economic reforms under new economic policies in India was associated with a paradigmatic shift in monetary and fiscal policy. While monetary policies were solely aimed at "price stability" in the neoliberal regime, fiscal policies were characterized by the objective of...
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This study assesses the European Central Bank's (ECB) crisis management performance and potential for crisis resolution. The study investigates the institutional and functional constraints that delineate the ECB's scope for policy action under crisis conditions, and how the bank has actually...
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The purpose of this report is to derive lessons from inflation targeting in Sweden for the choice of the future … monetary policy regime of Iceland. Swedish inflation targeting has been a success in terms of reducing inflation and inflation …
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Modern Money Theory (MMT) has generated considerable scrutiny and discussions over the past decade. While it has gained some acceptance in the financial sector and among some politicians, it has come under strong criticisms from all sides of the academic spectrum and from conservative political...
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Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early … 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a … checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs, disinflation occurred across all regions. This paper presents a …
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expansion) by focusing on domestic inflation, the foreign exchange (FX) rate, and the quantity of FX traded in the local market …. The empirical results suggest that the inflation rate is largely driven by foreign price and oil shocks. Nevertheless, the … the exchange rate, and slightly increasing the inflation rate. The latter finding has important implications for the …
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We analyze policy in a two-tiered monetary system. Noncompetitive banks issue deposits while the central bank issues reserves and a retail CBDC. Monies differ with respect to operating costs and liquidity. We map the framework into a baseline business cycle model with "pseudo wedges" and derive...
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