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In this paper, we extend Surico's (2007a) model to an open economy and test if the Brazilian Central Bank's loss function is asymmetric with regard to positive and negative deviations of the output gap and of the inflation rate from its target. Furthermore, we use tests for structural breaks to...
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Brazil arising from this policymaker's uncertainties about the effects of the output gap on inflation. Theoretically, we … about the slope in the Phillips curve implied nonlinearities in the Central Bank of Brazil's reaction function; (ii) we … gap in Meirelles-Tombini's administration; and (iv) the Central Bank of Brazil has also reacted to the exchange rate in …
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We examine the degree and sources of disagreement between the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) staff about the appropriate policy rate for the period 1987-2011. For that purpose, we compute a counterfactual interest rate for the Fed's staff , based on its...
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The aim of this article is to present and evaluate interest rate policies of three selected central banks in Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary) from 2001 to 2013. The study consists of an introduction (Section 1) and three main parts. The introduction contains a...
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