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citizens in January 2019 that is designed to measure long-term inflation expectations and the credibility of the inflation … target. Our results indicate that credibility has decreased in our sample period, particularly in the course of the deep … several years, credibility has declined mainly because Germans increasingly expect that inflation will be much higher than 2 …
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We assess empirically whether monetary policy announcements impact firm expectations. Two features of our data set are … key. First, we rely on a survey of production and price expectations of German firms, that is, expectations of actual … firms before and after monetary policy surprises and obtain two results. First, firm expectations respond to policy …
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-adjusted, uncovered interest parity model with unrestricted parameters, emphasizing the importance of modeling market expectations of … monetary policy. I use consensus forecasts as a proxy for market expectations. The analysis on the Deutsche mark, Canadian … expectations of future monetary policy, Taylor rule fundamentals are able to forecast changes in the exchange rate, even over short …
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citizens in January 2019 that is designed to measure long-term inflation expectations and the credibility of the inflation … target. Our results indicate that credibility has decreased in our sample period, particularly in the course of the deep … several years, credibility has declined mainly because Germans increasingly expect that inflation will be much higher than 2 …
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The personalities of central bankers moved center stage during the recent financial crisis. Some central bankers even gained "superstar" status. In this paper, we evaluate the pivotal role of superstar central bankers by assessing the difference an outstanding governor makes to economic...
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Since central banks have limited information concerning the transmission channel of monetary policy, they are faced with the difficult task of simultaneously controlling the policy target and estimating the impact of policy actions. A tradeoff between estimation and control arises because policy...
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Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320319
Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002176392