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, inflation and unemployment, we detect a wrong sign in the response of inflation to contractionary monetary policy shocks … 1999-2019, when the Federal Funds Rate and the Euro-Dollar exchange rate are added to the VAR model inflation shows … significant unemployment inflation trade-off emerges. These conclusions are confirmed by using industrial production instead of …
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Empirical evidence suggests that considerable differentials in inflation rates exist across households. This paper … investigates how central banks should react to household inflation heterogeneity in a tractable New Keynesian model. We include two … households that differ in their consumer price inflation rates after adverse shocks. The central bank reacts to either an average …
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We investigate whether fluctuations in U.S. inflation rates are better described by infrequently occurring large shocks … U.S. inflation rates, recognizing the distinction between frequent small shocks and infrequent large shocks does not …
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We propose a new measure of underlying inflation that provides real-time information on asymmetric risks in the outlook … for inflation. The asymmetries are generated by nonlinearities induced by economic activity. The new indicator is based on … additional advantages. First, it is able to swiftly infer abrupt changes in underlying inflation. Second, it helps track turning …
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We propose a new measure of underlying inflation that informs, in real time, about asymmetric risks on the outlook of … and has several additional advantages. First, it is able to swiftly infer abrupt changes in underlying inflation. Second …, it helps to timely track turning points in underlying inflation. Third, the proposed indicator also has a satisfactory …
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model the U.S. inflation rate via the Sorenson-Alspach recursions. Even after removing state-contingent heteroskedasticity … accounts for outliers and level shifts better, provides tighter estimates of trend inflation, and gives more realistic …
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In order to explain the joint fluctuations of output, inflation and the labor market, this paper first develops a … helps to explain the sluggishness of inflation and the persistence of output after a monetary policy shock. The ability of … the model to account for the joint dynamics of output and inflation rely on its ability to explain the dynamics in the …
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Staggered prices are a fundamental building block of New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. In the standard model, prices are uniformly staggered but recent empirical evidence suggest that deviations from uniform staggering are common, This paper analyzes how...
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examine the relevance of the cost channel for inflation dynamics in G7 countries. Since firms' costs of working capital … inflation responses to monetary policy shocks, and can even lead to inverse inflation responses, when the cost channel is …
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output and inflation, as observed in a vectorautoregression analysis. In contrast to backward indexation to past inflation …, which is often assumed in the literature, sticky information leads to a hump-shaped response in the inflation of flexibly …
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