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compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of … the crisis, predicting a decade of stagnation for the south and inflation for the north. Keynesian demand policy is …
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movements do not have an impact on inflation, as aggregate rules of thumb mask substantial heterogeneities across countries … deviations of inflation from target, including those relating to exchange rate fluctuations. Moreover, under the effective lower … inflation. …
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determinant of the monetary transmission mechanism, namely the degree of persistence characterising the inflation process. The … types of staggered contracts specifications which induce quite different degrees of inflation persistence. The paper shows … that inflation persistence is high when uncertainty about the prevailing degree of inflation persistence is pervasive …
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euro area and Japanese inflation dynamics are best explained by Taylor-style contracts, while Buiter …-Jewitt/Fuhrer-Moore contracts perform somewhat better in fitting U.S. inflation dynamics. We are unable to fit Calvo-style contracts to inflation … backward-looking element. The completed model matches inflation and output dynamics in the United States, the euro area and …
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a rationale for the practice of inflation zone targeting. We show that the presence of either zone-quadratic preferences … or a zone-linear relationship between inflation and economic activity provides strong incentives to deviate from … structure and relative preference towards economic stability in determining the width of the implied targeted inflation zone …
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costs across product groups. We show that, after the referendum, inflation increased by more for product groups with higher …
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We use the behavioral equilibirum exchange rate (BEER) approach to examine the extent of real exchange rate misalignment in the euro area over the period 1980-2014. In a panel data setting, we find significant links between real exchange rates, relative productivity, trade balance and terms of...
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This paper investigates whether the exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to CPI inflation is a nonlinear phenomenon for … confidence during the recent sovereign debt crisis has entailed a higher sensibility of CPI inflation to exchange rate movements. …
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This paper decomposes the time-varying effect of exogenous exchange rate shocks on euro area countries in ation into country-specific (idiosyncratic) and region-wide (common) components. To do so, we propose a exible empirical framework based on dynamic factor models subject to drifting...
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This paper decomposes the time-varying effect of exogenous exchange rate shocks on euro area countries inflation into … quarters of the past six years, especially in turning point periods. Our main results indicate that headline inflation in euro … inflation this increasing sensitivity is solely reliant on a sustained surge in the degree of comovement, for energy inflation …
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