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Bank of Canada research done prior to the most recent renewal of the inflation-control agreement in 2011 concluded that the benefits associated with a target below 2 per cent were insufficient to justify the increased risk of being constrained by the zero lower bound (ZLB) on nominal interest...
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Understanding the sources of inflation persistence is crucial for monetary policy. This paper provides an empirical assessment of the influence of inflation expectations' anchoring on the persistence of inflation. We construct a novel index of inflation expectations' anchoring using survey-based...
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flexibility and credibility; similarly, New Zealand's improved inflation performance was achieved without a discernable increase …
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Continuos credibility effects are incorporated into a simple model of optimal monetary policy. The resulting model … provides explanations for a number of "folk theorems" about credibility in monetary policy. A central bank with low initial … credibility pursues a more restrictive policy than a central bank with high initial credibility. It accommodates shocks less and …
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