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Estimates of the welfare costs of inflation based on Bailey (1956) are typically computed using aggregate money demand … Great Inflation to the present regime of low and stable inflation. For this purpose, we estimate different functional … the benefits were significant for both sectors. - Welfare cost of inflation ; flow of funds data ; demand for money …
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Empirical studies of the "shoe-leather" costs of inflation are typically computed using M1 as a measure of money. Yet … minimized for a positive but moderate value of the inflation rate, thereby justifying a deviation from the Friedman rule in … favour of the Fed's current policy. - Welfare costs of inflation ; flow of funds data ; US currency abroad …
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This paper reviews the key economic issues concerning the welfare costs of inflation and deflation, with a view to … shedding light on the desirable properties of the inflation process. Our review of the evidence on the overall costs of … inflation and deflation indicates that such costs could be even higher than previously thought, also at moderate rates of …
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affect medium-term inflation, the primary objective of monetary policy. Using panel local projections for 48 advanced and … inflation in the near term, especially in EMEs. But over the medium term, the impact across the various price indices tends to …
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We study the redistributive effects of surprise inflation combining administrative bank data with an information … provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing … inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while many households know about inflation eroding nominal …
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Monitoring and forecasting price developments in the euro area is essential in the light of the second pillar of the ECBu0092s monetary policy strategy. This study analyses whether the forecasting accuracy of forecasting aggregate euro area inflation can be improved by aggregating forecasts of...
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. The risk of future regime shifts has encompassing effects on equilibrium. Inflation is systematically higher than it would … stability. This inflation bias is increasing in the real value of government debt. Regime-switching probabilities are not … interest rate sufficiently moderately when inflation increases. Lower fiscal dominance risk, in turn, mitigates the inflation …
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adoption of monetary targets, the SNB was able to reduce the inflation trend to low levels. However, it was less successful in … preemptive policy stance. At the end of 1999, the SNB abandoned monetary targeting in favour of an approach based on inflation …
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Estimates of the welfare costs of inflation based on Bailey (1956) are typically computed using aggregate money demand … models. Yet, the behavior of money demand may vary across sectors. Thus, the impact on welfare of inflation regime shifts may … Great Inflation to the present regime of low and stable inflation. For this purpose, we estimate different functional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640322
Empirical studies of the "shoe-leather" costs of inflation are typically computed using M1 as a measure of money. Yet … minimized for a positive but moderate value of the inflation rate, thereby justifying a deviation from the Friedman rule in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640765