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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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We review macroeconomic performance over the period since the Global Financial Crisis and the challenges in the pursuit of the Federal Reserve's dual mandate. We characterize the use of forward guidance and balance sheet policies after the federal funds rate reached the effective lower bound. We...
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responds to inflation and output volatility, especially during economic crises. This framework offers a promising alternative …
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In this paper, we investigate the effects of monetary policy concerning the inflation rates specific for each income … the different inflation rates specific for each of the income groups. By using a Factor-Augmented VAR (FAVAR) model, we …
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This paper conducts a structural analysis of inflation persistence in the United Kingdom between 1965-2009. I allow for … and stochastic shock volatility. The first policy regime responds passively to movements in inflation, adjusting the … other regime responds actively to inflation and places less weight on exchange rate movements. This regime is present for …
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of past experience and international best practices. It confirms that food inflation has been the driver of domestic … inflation. The paper studies the recommendations of the Urjit Patel Committee and comments that monetary policies predominantly … focussed on inflation targeting may not necessarily be effective in India where inflation and inflationary expectations …
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movements with little inflation response; yet, at some point, something snaps, and a sudden inflation takes off that is strongly …
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Beveridge (full-employment-consistent) rate of unemployment (BECRU), derived from the unemployment-vacancies relationship. The … BECRU is the level of unemployment that minimises the non-productive use of labour. Based on a novel dataset for the period …. The European unemployment problem emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, as Beveridgean full employment gaps increased. In the …
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We analyze the determinants of the inflation trends in ten Southeast European (SEE) countries. Global cost …-related factors and euro area (EA) inflation developments play an important role in explaining inflation dynamics in SEE countries … exchange to euro area market appear to be susceptible to inflation spillovers from the euro area. Moreover, nominal effective …
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