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Macroeconomists have traditionally ignored the behavior of temporary price markdowns (“sales”) by retailers. Although sales are common in the micro price data, they are assumed to be unrelated to macroeconomic phenomena and generally filtered out. We challenge this view. First, using the...
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inflation. The analysis extends Elwood’s (1998) framework by incorporating in the model an inflation-threshold process that can …, depending on the level of inflation: negative shocks are more detrimental when inflation is high, and positive shocks are more … persistent when inflation is low. …
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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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In this paper, the authors propose a measure of underlying inflation for Canada obtained from estimating a monthly … distort the signal in many other measures of underlying inflation, and appears to capture price movements that are indicative … measures of underlying inflation monitored by the Bank of Canada. …
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-traded-goods inflation, since prices are found to be more sticky in this production sector, but those gains come at the cost of substantially … estimated model for the Canadian economy, with a strict inflation-targeting rule where the central bank reacts to the next … period's expected deviation from the inflation target and does not target the output gap. …
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. Compared to the historical inflation targeting rule, an optimal price level targeting regime substantially reduces the welfare … cost of business cycle fluctuations in terms of steady state consumption. The optimal price-level targeting rule performs … also better than the optimal inflation targeting rule in minimizing the distortion generated by the presence of nominal …
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containing information on real economic activity, inflation, interest rates and Divisia monetary aggregates produces the most …
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they help explain the "Great Inflation" of the 1970s and early 1980s. …
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There has been a systematic increase in the volatility of the real price of crude oil since 1986, followed by a decline in the volatility of oil production since the early 1990s. We explore reasons for this evolution. We show that a likely explanation of this empirical fact is that both the...
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