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model embodies the key principle that, in an inflation-targeting framework, the role of monetary policy is to provide an … anchor for inflation and inflation expectations. The development and calibration of this model is an ongoing process. …
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The paper uses MULTIMOD to examine the implications of uncertain exchange rate pass-through for the conduct of monetary policy. From the policymaker's perspective, uncertainty about exchange rate pass-through implies uncertainty about policy multipliers and the impact of state variables on...
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This paper explores how real dollarization (dollar indexing of wages), financial dollarization (dollar denomination of financial contracts), and monetary policy interact in a general equilibrium, new open-economy macroeconomics model with real shocks. Real dollarization is avoided as long as the...
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In this paper, I survey the issue of exchange rate regime choice from the perspective of both the industrial and emerging economies taking an historical perspective. I first survey the theoretical issues beginning with a taxonomy of regimes. I then examine the empirical evidence on the...
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This paper investigates the relation between the dynamics of inflation and exchange-rate regimes. It demonstrates that … associated with negligible persistence of inflation in the industrial economies, while regimes of managed exchange rates are … associated with very high persistence of inflation: the interwar period is associated with persistent deflation, the more recent …
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This paper extends earlier work (Kenen, 1987a, 1987b) on the ranking of exchange rate regimes. Using a two-country portfolio-balance model, it asks how pegged and floating exchange rates affect each country's ability to achieve its domestic policy objectives independently, without having to...
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Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account …
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China’s transformation into a dynamic private-sector-led economy and its integration into the world economy have been among the most dramatic global economic developments of recent decades. This paper provides an overview of some of the key aspects of recent developments in China’s...
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policy rests supports deflationary/stagnation tendencies in low-inflation/low-growth countries and bolsters booms/inflation … in high-inflation/high-growth countries. Whereas Germany has fallen victim to this policy, in a number of other countries …
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