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Under inflation targeting inflation exhibits negative serial correlation in the United Kingdom, and little or no …, inflation appears to be (nearly) purely forward-looking, so that no mechanism introducing backward-looking components is … necessary to fit the data. These results question the notion that the intrinsic inflation persistence found in post-WWII U …
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estimates for inflation forecasting both in the short term (one-quarter and one-year ahead) and the medium term (two-year and …
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Inflation rates in the euro area have reached historic highs due in large part to high energy prices. As the euro area … is a net importer of energy, one refers to this inflation as imported inflation. There is a danger that these high … inflation rates will become entrenched in inflation expectations. This would not only imply that high inflation rates will …
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Whereas strong demand is a key factor driving high inflation in the US, inflation in the Euro Area is mainly due to … prevent second-round effects. Long run inflation expectations — as measured by the survey of professional forecasters — still … seem to be well anchored. The ECB's announced tightening intends to dampen rising household's inflation expectations. Given …
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estimates for inflation forecasting both in the short term (one-quarter and one-year ahead) and the medium term (two-year and … measure appears superior to all others in all respects. - Output gap ; real-time data ; euro area ; inflation forecasts ; real …
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We study the distributional consequences of housing price, bond price and equity price increases for Euro Area households using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The capital gains from bond price and equity price increases turn out to be concentrated among relatively...
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After 2012, inflation has been unexpectedly low across much of the developed world and economists speak of a “missing … inflation” puzzle, namely inflation was expected to be higher on the back of an ongoing recovery. This paper investigates the … causes and consequences of low inflation in the euro area after 2012 and analyses whether monetary policy has been successful …
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We develop a theoretical model that features a business cycle-dependent relation between output, price inflation and … inflation expectations, augmenting the model by Svensson (1997) with a nonlinear Phillips curve that reflects the rationale … pronounced convex relationship between inflation and the output gap, meaning that the co-efficient in the Phillips curve on the …
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Do euro area inflation expectations remain well-anchored? This paper finds that the protractedperiod of low (and below …-target) inflation in the euro area since 2013 has weakened theiranchoring. Testing their sensitivity to inflation and macroeconomic news … robustness to our conclusions. Results point to a significantimpact of inflation news over recent years that had not been …
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We study the distributional consequences of housing price, bond price and equity price increases for Euro Area households using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The capital gains from bond price and equity price increases turn out to be concentrated among relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988678