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future interest rate, inflation, and output to discover the sources of individual interest rate forecast errors. Based on a …. However, although experts tend to overestimate the impact of inflation on future interest rates, perceptions of monetary … improved communication has reduced disagreement over the ECB's response to expected inflation during the financial crisis …
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This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical instrument, suitable for economic policy: the...
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decisions with regard to inflation expectations of financial market experts for the euro area from February 1999 to June 2007 … of inflation expectations formation. …
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Phillips curve, the sum of coefficients associated with expected inflation is far beyond unity, whatever measure of expected … inflation rates is employed. Therefore, either the NAIRU concept is not applicable to Germany or, as it is our suggestion, one … estimates the unemployment rate that is compatible with a tolerable inflation rate of say 2 percent following roughly the …
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potential output overestimated) before the recent crisis. It is fair to say that the employed estimation techniques failed to … insignificant relation between inflation and the output gap or unemployment gap, which questions the adequacy of the Phillips curve … into account in conventional methods for the estimation of potential output and the output gap. Since both, potential …
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In this analysis, the informational content of central bank rhetoric is assessed based on the experience with the ECB since 1999. Among the ECB’s communication channels we focus on the monthly press conferences. Based on a counting of certain signal words we construct a wording indicator...
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Do governments strategically choose debt maturity to fill supply gaps across maturities? Building on a new panel data set of more than 9,000 individual Eurozone government debt issues between 1999 and 2015, I find that governments increase long-term debt issues following periods of low aggregate...
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In this paper we study the macroeconomic effects of large exchange rate appreciations. Using a sample of 128 countries from 1960-2008, we identify large nominal and real appreciations shocks and study their macroeconomic effects in a dummy-augmented panel autoregressive model. Our results show...
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This paper is devoted to a new estimation of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) for the West … German Economy 1980 to 1998. The novelty of the paper is the estimation of a time-varying NAIRU for West Germany employing …
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ignoring a potential national perspective may lead to a serious bias in the estimation of ECB reaction functions. The paper …
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