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target. To (re-) establish credibility, monetary policy under discretion sets higher interest rates today if average … reflected in an additional term in the central bank's instrument rule, which we refer to as the "credibility loss." Augmenting a … and that this influence is economically meaningful. Deterioration in credibility (ceteris paribus) forces central bankers …
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target. To (re-) establish credibility, monetary policy under discretion sets higher interest rates today if average … reflected in an additional term in the central bank's instrument rule, which we refer to as the ”credibility loss.” Augmenting a … and that this influence is economically meaningful. Deterioration in credibility (ceteris paribus) forces central bankers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048528
policy strategy. This assumption is equivalent to admitting the perfect credibility of inflation target announced by the …
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policy strategy. This assumption is equivalent to admitting the perfect credibility of inflation target announced by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616832
In this paper, we explore the interest rate setting behavior of newly appointed central bank governors. We use the Kuttner and Posen (2010) sample, which covers 15 OECD countries, and estimate an augmented Taylor (1993) rule for the period 1974–2008. We find, first, that newly appointed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897854
A simple test of inflation target credibility is constructed by subtracting the maximum and minimum inflation rates …, fall outside the range of target-consistent real yields, credibility is rejected. Two concepts of credibility, called … absolute credibility and credibility in expectation, are distinguished. The credibility of inflation targets of Canada, New …
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After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the...
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The paper consists of four parts each of them devoted to a practical aspect of inflation targeting as conducted by the Czech National Bank. The first part outlines the reasons that led to the adoption of this monetary regime and summarises other advantages for effective and transparent...
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This paper studies the effects of the monetary policy regime shift to inflation targeting on the stochastic properties of the real interest rate in the U.K. The empirical analysis suggests a constant mean of the real interest rate that shifts with the monetary policy regime change to inflation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010573265
After decades using monetary aggregates as the main instrument of monetary policy and having different varieties of crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as the nominal anchor, a floating exchange rate, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828188