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This paper examines the long-run effects of supply shocks (such as oil shocks) on inflation in the United States. The … persistence of supply shocks in U.S. inflation fell considerably during the period of Volcker's disinflation (1979-1982). My … the behavior of inflation expectations-agents expected shocks to persist in the pre-Volcker period, but not in the post …
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he COVID-19 pandemic calls for a collective response at the global and regional level. Otherwise, some nations may be left behind and the potential for the contagion to return remains high. As advanced regional blocs, the EU and ASEAN have a major responsibility to their members for coordinating...
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expectations are rational This paper shows that while empirical household expectations are not rational in the usual sense …
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explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark … empirical household expectations data and shows that a simple standard model from epidemiology does a remarkably good job of … demographic groups have sharply different predictions for macroeconomic aggregates like the inflation rate …
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In recent years the world's two largest inflation-targeting central banks - the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) and the …, both revisions quickly became antiquated when inflation started to rise again in the wake of the pandemic. The change in … macroeconomic context (from stubbornly low inflation to persistent higher inflation) led both central banks to advocate 'policy …
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This paper presents a comprehensive examination of the determination and evolution of inflation expectations, with a … focus on emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). The results suggest that long-term inflation expectations in …. Indeed, in EMDEs, long-term inflation expectations are more sensitive to both domestic and global inflation shocks. However …
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This paper investigates the changing behavior of inflation expectations in response to the macroeconomic and policy … environment. Using a panel of professional forecasters covering thirteen years of inflation targeting period from Turkey, we … present evidence on the behavioral shifts in the inflation expectations associated with evolving macroeconomic and policy …
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's Research Department prior to the Board meetings Using Greenbook forecasts allows calculation of future inflation shocks as …
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NAIRU stands for the nonaccelerating inflation rate of unemployment. It is beyond dispute that this acronym is an ugly … aggregate demand more generally, push inflation and unemployment in opposite directions in the short run. Once this short …-run tradeoff is admitted, there must be some level of unemployment consistent with stable inflation. The second issue is why the …
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We develop and estimate a general equilibrium model in which monetary policy can deviate from active in.ation stabilization and agents face uncertainty about the nature of these deviations. When observing a deviation, agents conduct Bayesian learning to infer its likely duration. Under...
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