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Following the experience of the global financial crisis, central banks have been asked to undertake unprecedented responsibilities. Governments and the public appear to have high expectations that monetary policy can provide solutions to problems that do not necessarily fit in the realm of...
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This paper focuses on the trade–offs that central banks would face if they were to start tackling climate change. Disruptive natural events can hamper growth and capital accumulation, thereby affecting price and financial stability – elements for which central banks are responsible. Yet, the...
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to support the standard objection to such policies: that they will lead to uncontrollable inflation. Theoretical models … support for a relationship between monetary financing and inflation. The findings lend support to recent calls for explicit …
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According to the game-theoretic model of monetary policy, inflation is the consequence of time-inconsistent behavior of … the monetary authority. The inflation bias can be eased by handing over the responsibility for monetary policy to an … independent central bank and appointing a weight-conservative central banker. Countries around the world chose different …
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independence and inflation. In this paper, we construct a theory where the relationship between inflation and central bank … inflation or costly fiscal expansion) rejects the monetary policy proposal of the central bank (which aims to minimize inflation …, increasing the fixed cost of rejecting the central bank's offer creates two opposite effects on inflation: delegation effect and …
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The fiscal theory states that inflation adjusts so that the real value of government debt equals the present value of … fiscal theory to interpret historical episodes, including the rise and fall of inflation in the 1970s and 1980s, the long … pegs, the ends of hyperinflations, currency crashes, and the success of inflation targets. Going forward, fiscal theory …
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We have helicopter money when there is a lump-sum monetary transfer which produces intended central bank capital losses and/or a permanent monetary base change. This extraordinary monetary policy option appears whenever there is a significant economic crisis. But then the helicopter never flies....
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a more symmetric policy role for central banks, with equal weight on fighting inflation and preventing depressions …
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a more symmetric policy role for central banks, with equal weight on fighting inflation and preventing depressions …
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