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Many commentators have argued that if the Federal Reserve had followed a stricter monetary policy earlier this decade when the housing bubble was forming, and if Congress had not deregulated banking but had imposed tighter financial standards, the housing boom and bust - and the subsequent...
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preserve the hard-won anchoring of inflation expectations and dissipate any hypothetical fears that central banks? greater risk …
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stability amidst the current phase of the inflation crisis (Section 4); and identifies the areas where the financial regulatory …
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We assess the effects of financial shocks on inflation, and to what extent financial shocks can account for the … shocks through sign restrictions. Our main finding is that expansionary financial shocks temporarily lower inflation. This … during the latest financial crisis. We then explore the transmission channels of financial shocks relevant for inflation, and …
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interpret the evolution of the central bank independence from the Great Inflation and during the Great Moderation – i.e. from …
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We provide comprehensive evidence of the widespread occurrence of inflation convergence between all countries of the … inflation benchmarks (the cross-sectional average, the inflation target of the European Central Bank, and the Maastricht … criterion), structural breaks, and a core inflation measure. Our main findings imply that further enlargement of the euro area …
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This paper analyses the distribution of long-term inflation expectations in the euro area using individual density …
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Two extraordinary inflation surprises of the last generation were the longstanding inflation shortfall from central … bank targets and now the pandemic inflationary.Inflation shortfalls can be attributed to characteristics of monetary … inflation. Compounding this problem is a base level of inflation from non-monetary causes, population growth and the natural …
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developed economies to raise economic growth and inflation in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. These programmes can …
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We ask whether recent changes in monetary policy due to the financial crisis will be temporary or permanent. We present evidence from two surveys - one of central bank governors, the other of academic specialists. We find that central banks in crisis countries are more likely to have resorted to...
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