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Using CPI micro data for 11 euro area countries covering about 60% of the euro area consumption basket over the period 2010-2019, we document new ndings on consumer price rigidity in the euro area: (i) each month on average 12.3% of prices change, which compares with 19.3% in the United States;...
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of the two elements leads to an inflation bias that is independent of the standard time-inconsistency bias. Secondly, we … an independent monetary policy. We find that inflation was the main determinant of central bank credit prior to 2007 …
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This paper considers the potential inflation effects of a global carbon price on consumer prices, investment prices … the inflation effects in developed countries of a 100 USD/ton carbon price are small. For developing countries, the … inflation effect is larger and potentially too large for it to be politically feasible to introduce a global carbon price …
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all goods and track inflation. We then calculate nominal growth and its components. We find that per-captita real wealth …
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Reserve does not target inflation or react to inflation signals." Rather, the Fed reacts to the very real" signal sent by … the Federal Reserve largely ceased reacting to inflation or high unemployment, but continued to react when unemployment … for the effects of inflation and unemployment. …
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root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors … descriptive statistics. Subsequently, we set out the possible mismatches between price level convergence and inflation rates … factors on observed inflation rates first in an accounting framework and then by relying on panel estimations. Our estimation …
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view of inflation. Second, we discuss how the recent inflationary episode has contributed to redistributing real resources …
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We review the main New Keynesian inflation equations that have arisen as a result of aggregation from individual firms …' price rigidities. We find that, on the whole, they cannot account for inflation persistence, a key feature of the empirical … dynamics of inflation, and with important policy implications. The only exception seems to be when price stickiness is combined …
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Sticky-price models with rational expectations fail to capture the inertia in US inflation Models with backward …-looking expectations capture current inflation behavior but are unlikely to fit other monetary regimes This paper seeks to overcome these … problems with a near-rational model of expectations In the model agents make univariate forecasts of inflation: they use …
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