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This paper uses time-series data from India and tests for asymmetries in policy preferences of the Reserve Bank of India (the Central Bank of India, hereafter RBI). The results show evidence in favour of preference asymmetries in monetary policy reaction function in India and hence...
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Anchored inflation expectations help stabilize inflation. Previous results indicate that monetary policy has been effective in breaking the link between actual and expected inflation at the euro area level. In this paper we examine whether this is also true at the national level. We define the...
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We measure the tone (sentiment) of the ECB's Governing Council regarding economic outlook at the time of each monetary … policy meeting and use this information together with the Eurosystem/ECB staff macroeconomic projections to directly estimate … estimations, that the ECB has been either more averse to inflation above 2% ceiling or that the de facto inflation aim has been …
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n this study, we examine the evolution of the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) reaction function since the adoption of the structural Adjustment Programme (SAP). We consider the role of structural breaks in the reaction function, the leading composition, as well as the driving factors behind...
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A number of recent studies have suggested that activist stabilization policy rules responding to inflation and the output gap can attain simultaneously a low and stable rate of inflation as well as a high degree of economic stability. The foremost example of such a strategy is the policy rule...
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turnaround in monetary policy pursuits and a rapid rise in reference interest rates. The FED reacted much faster than the ECB and …
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turnaround in monetary policy pursuits and a rapid rise in reference interest rates. The FED reacted much faster than the ECB and …
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In a simple New Keynesian model, we derive a closed form solution for the inflation persistence parameter as a function of the policy weights in the central bank’s Taylor rule. By estimating the time-varying weights that the FED attaches to inflation and the output gap, we show that the...
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In a simple New Keynesian model, we derive a closed form solution for the inflation-gap persistence parameter as a function of the policy weights in the central bank’s Taylor rule. By estimating the time-varying weights that the FED attaches to inflation and the output gap, we show that the...
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