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Low and unresponsive inflation has been termed a “puzzle.” The paper describes a formula for which these conditions … variability of forward long-term inflation. Its U.S. inflation forecasts are comparable to recognized leaders in accuracy with … potential applicability to international economies as well.Inflation Elasticity, the responsiveness of inflation to monetary …
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safeguarding financial stability, with the world economy still in the process of digesting the legacy of the crisis. The crisis has … changed central banking in many ways: by shifting the focus of monetary policy from fighting too high inflation towards … fighting too low inflation; by prompting new ‘experimental’ non-conventional measures, which risk to cause large, long …
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We develop a comprehensive index of the transparency of central banks regarding their policy framework to promote financial stability for 110 countries from 2000 to 2011 and examine the determinants and effects of this transparency. We find that the degree of transparency increased in the 2000s,...
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presented herein provide the first empirical evidence that macroprudential transparency can aid to achieve stable inflation in … record a particular advantage of macroprudential transparency for non-inflation targeting countries. Overall, the results are …
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The U.S. Federal Reserve has committed hundreds of billions of dollars in unprecedented lending activities and purchases of mortgage-backed securities based upon its authority under the Federal Reserve Act, and particularly upon its interpretation of Section 13(3), a formerly untested and unused...
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inflation stabilization and balanced growth objectives. The challenge in meeting these objectives further increased in the mid …
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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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This monograph challenges the myth that the recent banking crisis was caused by insufficient statutory regulation of financial markets. Though it finds that statutory regulation failed, and that market participants took more risks than they should have done, it appears that statutory regulation...
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The analysis in this paper was presented to the Federal Open Market Committee as background for its discussion of the Federal Reserve's review of monetary policy strategy, tools, and communication practices. The Committee discussed issues related to the review at five consecutive meetings from...
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