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Central bankers’ conventional wisdom suggests that nominal interest rates should be raised to implement a lower inflation target. In contrast, I show that the standard New Keynesian monetary model predicts that nominal interest rates should be decreased to attain this goal. Real interest...
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disinflation under inflation targeting policies. The analysis is motivated by the disinflation performance of many inflation …-targeting countries, in particular the gradual Chilean disinflation with temporary annual targets. At the start of the disinflation … adaptive learning lowers the cost of disinflation. This reduction can be exploited by a gradual approach to disinflation. Firms …
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When taken to examine disinflation monetary policies, the current workhorse DSGE model of business cycle fluctuations … downturn, disinflation entails non-zero overall welfare gains. …
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The real effects of an imperfectly credible disinflation depend critically on the extent of price rigidity. In this … paper, we examine how credibility affects the outcome of a disinflation in a model with endogenous time-dependent pricing … rules. Both the endogenous initial degree of price rigidity and changes in the duration of price spells during disinflation …
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This paper shows that announced credible disinflations under inflation targeting lead to a boom in a standard New Keynesian model (i.e. a disinflationary boom). This finding is robust with respect to various parameterizations and disinflationary experiments. Thus, it differs from previous...
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