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This paper presents a model that pictures how inflation is determined in a decentralized market process where prices … setters of sequential contracts. An important property of the model is that inflation thus can be explained without any … reference to the quantity of money.Following up the finding that inflation is determined in a coordination game, it is …
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The paper shows the advantages and handicaps of implementing an inflation target (IT) regime, from a Post-Keynesian and …
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This paper contributes to a better understanding of how inflation targets are set. First, we gather evidence on how … inflation targets are set from official central bank and government publications and from a questionnaire of our own design …. Second, we estimate the determinants of the level of the inflation target in 19 inflation-targeting countries using …
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It is something of a puzzle that politicians around the world have chosen to give up power to independent central banks, thereby reducing their possibilities to fine-tune the economy. In this paper the determinants of central bank independence (CBI) reforms are studied using a new data set on...
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Deflation counts among the worst things that could happen to an economy, the conventional wisdom tells us. But are falling prices really that bad? According to the Austrian School of Economics, this is not necessarily the case. A distinction is commonly made between (1) growth, (2)...
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interest rates and inflation rates. It is argued that the traditional story deriving central bank power from its monopoly of … banks seem to influence interest and inflation rates. Here, we suggest that the explanation is that central banks have …
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policy. The direct inflation targeting strategy used by the European Central Bank in applying its monetary policy has the … first criterion of implementation the expression of inflation target in terms of „headline inflation†(consumer price … consumer price index, this one ensuring the necessary transparency related to the effects of inflation phenomenon. A strong …
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This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding on how inflation targets are set. For this reason, we first … inflation targets are set; we then estimate the determinants of the level of inflation target in 19 inflation targeting … than as a point). Inflation targets are found to reflect macroeconomic fundamentals. Higher level as well as higher …
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the long run trade-off between unemployment and inflation in Egypt … analysis confirm a positive relationship between changes in inflation rate and unemployment gap in the long run, which is … consistent with “Locus Critique” where a policy of inflation would fail to reduce the unemployment rate in the long run, because …
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The recent debate over monetary policy strategies concludes that monetary targeting in practice lead to very similar patterns of central bank behaviour. This raises the question why central banks insist on the strategies they use. In this paper, we develop an answer from political economy. After...
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