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This paper shows how endogeneous inflation inertia is generated by a simple modificaton of the quadratic adjustment … cost structure faced by economic agents. We derive the pertinent inflation relationships based on purely nominal rigidities … replicate empirical responses to an interest rate shock. -- Inflation Dynamics ; New Keynesian Phillips Curve; Business …
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Empirical evidence suggests that considerable differentials in inflation rates exist across households. This paper … investigates how central banks should react to household inflation heterogeneity in a tractable New Keynesian model. We include two … households that differ in their consumer price inflation rates after adverse shocks. The central bank reacts to either an average …
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Macroeconomists have traditionally ignored the behavior of temporary price markdowns ("sales") by retailers. Although sales are common in the micro price data, they are assumed to be unrelated to macroeconomic phenomena and generally filtered out. We challenge this view. First, using the 1996 -...
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(M1, M3-M1 or credit) and the underlying state of the economy (asset price boom-bust, business cycle, inflation cycle … inflation differ over time. We show that the impact varies considerably over time, depends on the source of increased liquidity …, credit cycle and monetary policy stance) …
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Global inflation has risen sharply from its lows in mid-2020, on rebounding global demand, supply bottlenecks, and … soaring food and energy prices, especially since the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine. Markets expect inflation to … developments, the risk of stagflation-a combination of high inflation and sluggish growth-has risen. The recovery from the …
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firms) and a measure of wage entitlement are critical to fit the dynamic responses of hours, wages and inflation to various … significant fall of inflation and nominal wage growth in response to a neutral technology shock …
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In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a … significantly lower elasticity of marginal costs with respect to output. This helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the … inflation relies on its ability to explain the dynamics of the labor market …
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population growth has lowered both the natural rate and inflation by about 0.4 percentage points in recent decades. …
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We develop a novel method for the identification of monetary policy shocks. By applying natural language processing techniques to documents that Federal Reserve staff prepare in advance of policy decisions, we capture the Fed's information set. Using machine learning techniques, we then predict...
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financial conditions have some inflation forecasting ability over the monetary policy relevant two to three-year horizon during …
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