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regime during a deceleration in economic activity and with headline and core inflation remaining well below the FOMC's 2 … percent inflation target. Moreover, both short- and long-term inflation expectations were drifting lower. These developments …
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Neo-Fisherites argue that conventional central banking wisdom has inflation control wrong, in that the way to increase … (reduce) inflation is to increase (reduce) the central bank’s nominal interest rate target …
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This paper presents evidence on the lag between monetary policy actions and the response of inflation in the euro area … regime thereafter. Results based on alternative definitions of inflation persistence support these findings, although, they … suggest that a drop in German inflation persistence and a shift in the mean of inflation - particularly in Italy and France …
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than rules that also include current or future inflation …
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We investigate the effectiveness of an aggressive anti-inflation monetary policy on the ability of agents to achieve … rational expectations equilibrium (REE) forecasts of inflation. An aggressive anti-inflation policy includes a willingness to … respond more forcefully to deviations from an inflation target. Using an adaptive learning framework, we develop a model that …
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This paper assesses the proximate causes of the post pandemic surge in US inflation, the Federal Reserve's real time …
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In Canada, targeting the inflation rate was intended as a temporary measure during a transition to price … following account, changing beliefs about the stability or otherwise of ongoing inflation, the capacity of a flexible exchange … unemployment rate and money growth in influencing economic outcomes are also discussed. Today's standard theoretical approach to …
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optimal inflation target for the asymmetric union is also discussed. …
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This study proposes a real-time estimate of inattention, based on micro-level data. I show that a simple specification that estimates the persistence of a forecaster's deviation from the mean provides a direct estimate for parameters of information rigidity according to prominent models of...
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