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This paper is concerned with international reserves. It makes two main points. Firstly, excess reserves cannot be … control theory is employed to illustrate the stabilization problem in an economy in which excess reserves are financed by …
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Excessive inflation is usually attributed to the lack of central bank's credibility. In this context, most of the literature considers transparency a means to establish central bank's credibility. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it shows that, even in the absence of...
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How much information should a central bank (CB) have about (i) policy objectives and (ii) operational shocks to the effect of monetary policy? We consider a version of the Barro–Gordon credibility problem in which monetary policy signals an inflation-biased CB's private information on both...
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The major central banks now operate in a regime of abundance of bank reserves. As a result, they can only raise the … money market rate by increasing the rate of remuneration of bank reserves. This, in turn, leads to large transfers of the … policies less effective. We propose a two-tier system of reserve requirements that would only remunerate the reserves in excess …
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This paper investigates the impact of ECB communication of its assessment of the economic outlook on ex-ante inflation uncertainty and sheds light on how central bank information shocks operate. The paper finds that ECB communication of new outlook information not only reduces professional...
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future real rates with respect to current ones, in stimulating aggregate demand. The quantity of reserves and their interest …
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