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Does a bias in FOMC policy directives help predict intermeeting policy changes?

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Does a Bias in FOMC Directives Help Predict Inter-Meeting Policy Changes?

Lapp, John S.; Pearce, Douglas K. - 2001

Since 1984, the FOMC has often issued directives for monetary policy that indicate a bias toward easing or tightening … after a directive is issued, the results indicate that a bias to ease predicts a significantly lower average funds rate and … a bias to tighten forecasts a significantly higher average funds rate. If policy is measured qualitatively by whether …

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Human frictions in the transmission of economic policy

D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Paloviita, Maritta; … - 2021 - This version: September 2021

Many consumers below the top of the distribution of a representative population by cognitive abilities barely react to monetary and fiscal policies that aim to stimulate consumption and borrowing, even when they are financially unconstrained and despite substantial debt capacity. Differences in...

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Human frictions in the transmission of economic policy

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Intertemporal substitution is at the heart of modern macroeconomics and finance as well as economic policymaking, but a large fraction of a representative population of men - those below the top of the distribution by cognitive abilities (IQ) - do not change their consumption propensities with...

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The subjective inflation expectations of households and firms : measurement, determinants, and implications

Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - 2022

Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...

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