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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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This Occasional Paper analyses how significant expansions in central banks' mandates, roles and instruments can result in challenges to the independence of monetary policy. The paper reviews, in particular, some of the key challenges to central bank independence brought about by the global...
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This paper reviews recent developments in US monetary policy and then discusses some possible reforms that might be considered to modify the behavior of the Federal Reserve System. Since its creation a century ago, the Federal Reserve System has grown from a narrowly defined central bank...
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central bank's inflation response necessary to rule out the possibility of self-fulfilling inflation expectations. This paper … their inputs (i.e. Markov-Switching) then inflation targeting interest rate rules are often found to result in indeterminacy … rule can alleviate this indeterminacy and anchor inflation expectations. Whether the money growth target should be a …
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Since 1991, the Bank of Canada has had an inflation‐targeting (IT) framework established by a joint agreement between … inflation‐control agreement. This discussion paper summarizes some interim results from Bank staff analysis done for the August … analysis later in 2021. The core of the current framework-the 2 percent inflation target-has remained unchanged since 1995 …
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This paper reports graphical and statistical evidence that the inflation targeting regimes in Canada and the UK - but … tracks the path implied by the inflation target, and the time-series predictions of the "bygones-are-bygones" version of … inflation targeting are rejected by the data in favor of those implied by price-level targeting. These results indicate …
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changes. Lastly, the magnitude of response of inflation to monetary policy depends on the level of credibility. This suggests …
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This paper first shows that the forecast error incurred when assuming that future inflation will be equal to the … inflation target announced by the central bank is typically at least as small and often smaller than forecast errors of model …-based and published inflation forecasts. It then shows that there are substantial benefits in having rule-of-thumb agents who …
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The shift to inflation targeting has contributed to the relatively low inflation observed in some emerging market … policy and its impact on real and financial sectors, it does not preclude the use of inflation targeting as a policy regime …
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banks set interest rate targets, and do not even pretend to control money supplies. How is inflation determined under an …We finally have a complete theory of inflation under interest rate targets, that mirrors the long-run neutrality and … frictionless limit of monetary theory: Inflation can be stable and determinate under interest rate targets, including a k percent …
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