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pronounced increase of aggregate US producer price inflation. …
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/depreciations and inflation by estimating nonlinear time series models. Motivated by theoretical and empirical results in the literature …-through regimes depending upon the magnitude of appreciations of a currency and inflation rates both in the short-run and in the long …
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periods, and remains low. Whereas pass-through effects where high and close to 1 in the high-inflation period, they seem to … Industrialization (ISI) period of the 1950s and 1960s. Conventional results suggests that low and stable inflation environments lead to … rates in order to control the exchange rate. This paper suggests that 'fear of inflation' provides justification for the …
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choices matter for output volatility and the medium-term level of inflation. Greater monetary independence is associated with … associated with a higher level of inflation while greater exchange rate stability and greater financial openness could lower the … inflation rate. We find that trilemma policy configurations affect output volatility through the investment or trade channel …
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inflation, particularly in the 1970s, and the choice of an exchange rate regime consistent with domestic monetary and fiscal … reminiscent of the global inflation generated by the weak dollar in the 1970s. …
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This paper analyzes the stabilizing properties of alternative monetary policy regimes. In practice there is a choice between two broad types of monetary policy regimes: a fixed exchange rate regime or a floating exchange rate regime. In this paper I compare exchange rate targeting with different...
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This paper studies the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Bundesbank / European Central Bank (ECB) with respect to stock or/and foreign exchange markets from 1979 to 2009. I find that Fed policy changed over time, dependent on the chairman of the Fed. During the Greenspan era...
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Countries that are classified as having floating exchange rate systems (or very wide bands) show strikingly different patterns of behavior. They hold very different levels of international reserves and allow very different volatilities in the movements of the exchange rate relative to the...
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It is well-known that the extent of pass-through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices is much lower than to import prices. One explanation is local distribution costs. Here we consider an alternative, complementary, explanation based on the optimal pricing strategies of firms. We consider...
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). Rather than shifts between low and high inflation, the nonlinearity arises when large swings in the exchange rate trigger … inflation has been low and stable, the ERPT still doubles in value in times of a rapid appreciation of the Swiss Franc. …
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