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Recent research has clarified the nature of measurement errors in U.S. price indexes. Changes in the quality of goods create severe problems. Laspeyres-type indexes suffer from substitution bias from one good to another and from one type of outlet to another. Available evidence suggests that the...
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This paper describes an empirical framework for analyzing the monetary transmission mechanism through which changes in monetary policy affect real GDP and inflation. The framework reflects the work of a large number of empirical researchers who have built econometric models of the impacts of...
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This paper examines the issue of whether differences in money targeting or base-drift procedures between Japan and the … concludes that these procedures probably are not important factors. ; We compare Bank of Japan (BoJ) money growth projections … with Federal Reserve money targets. We show that BoJ projections are not comparable to annual money targets set by the Fed …
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We use vector autoregressions to examine the behavior of the velocities of alternative monetary aggregates, focusing on the role of disinflation and deregulation during the 1980s. By estimating a single system that contains income, prices, interest rates and the components of M3, we are able to...
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This paper uses Whiteman's(1986) frequency-domain optimization methodology to parameterize the precommitment period in a standard rational expectations policy design model. This allows researchers to adopt an empirical approach to the time consistency issue. That is, the operative commitment...
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The information value of central bank announcements of projected future money growth is shown to depend both on the … a new data set on internal Federal Reserve money projections. These projections, which are kept secret while they are in … force, are comparable in many important respects with publicly announced Bank of Japan money projections. Using a derivative …
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