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economy. Romer and Romer (2000) found that the Fed reveals information about inflation when it tightens monetary policy. Their … exclude the Fed's revelation of its asymmetric information about future inflation. …
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This paper formalizes the process of updating the nowcast and forecast on output and inflation as new releases of data … Philadelphia surveys have a large marginal impact on the nowcast of both inflation variables and real variables and this effect is … sizeable. Prices and quantities affect the precision of the estimates of inflation while GDP is only affected by real variables …
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In this paper we incorporate the term structure of interest rates in a standard inflation forecast targeting framework ….We find that under flexible inflation targeting and uncertainty in the degree of persistence in the economy, allowing for …
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natural rate and large real-time errors in estimates of the natural rate uprooted heretofore quiescent in inflation … inflation expectations would have remained anchored and the stag inflation of the 1970s would have been avoided. Indeed, we find … that less activist policies would have been more effective at stabilizing both in inflation and unemployment. We argue that …
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private learning and misperceptions of natural rates call for greater policy inertia, a more aggressive response to inflation …
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This paper proposes a procedure to investigate the nature and persistence of the forces governing the yield curve and to use the extracted information for forecasting purposes. The latent factors of a model of the Nelson-Siegel type are directly linked to the maturity of the yields through the...
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not need to be decreased as much and inflation turns out to be much higher than if no QE interventions were implemented …
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the ten countries, the United Kingdom has conducted inflation targeting most in line with the theory of rational …In this paper I evaluate inflation targeting for ten countries. The evaluation is based on unconditional as well as … conditional measures of the variance of inflation around target. With strict inflation targeting, expectations of the future …
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survey data in the US Phillips curve, where the output gap plays a significant role but lagged inflation plays none. …
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The purpose of this paper is to solve linear dynamic rational expectations models with anticipated shocks by using the generalized Schur decomposition method. We also determine the optimal unrestricted and restricted policy responses to temporary as well as permanent shocks which both are...
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