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inflation rate. Evidence is also presented that suggests prices are being driven by increases in the money supply rather than by … changes in price setting behaviour. The paper additionally uses the estimated elasticity on the inflation variable to … dramatically after 2000, with inflation eventually exceeding the rate required to maximize this revenue stream. This is discussed …
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The author provides an overview of the 1975–78 Anti-Inflation Program (AIP), in a background document prepared for a … policy response to, inflation in the decade preceding the introduction of the AIP, the author sets out the elements of the … AIP's monetary and fiscal policy, and prices and incomes controls. He then compares the program's inflation objectives …
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The recent debate over monetary policy strategies concludes that monetary targeting in practice lead to very similar patterns of central bank behaviour. This raises the question why central banks insist on the strategies they use. In this paper, we develop an answer from political economy. After...
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Our current inflation stemmed from a fiscal shock. The Fed is slow to react. Why? Will the Fed's slow reaction spur … more inflation? I write a simple model that encompasses the Fed's mild projections and its slow reaction, and traditional … views that inflation will surge without swift rate rises. The key question is whether expectations are forward looking or …
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endogeneity of money. Implicitly, the money supply process with regard to Turkish inflation is unpredictable with respect to the … past history of prices, i.e. either inflation or currency depreciation. Therefore, the Turkish monetary regime may be … persistently high inflationary process in Turkey. -- Demand for Money ; High Inflation ; Granger Causality ; Exogeneity of Money …
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their credibility to forward guidance policies. As stable inflation in normal times either stems from central banker …'s credibility, e.g. through reputation, or from his aversion to inflation, the private sector is unable to infer the central banker …'s type from observing stable inflation, jeopardizing the efficiency of forward guidance policy. We show that this signaling …
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Austerity measures in response to Eurozone crisis have tended to be conceived, debated, and implemented as if only the technical parameters of budget management mattered. But policies that impose budgetary hardships on citizens, whether in the form of increased taxes or cuts to public spending...
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In the present paper we question the mainstream diagnosis of Germany's post-2000 stagnation as well as the prescribed remedies. We show that the "institutional sclerosis" view of Germany's stagnation is unfounded and that therefore the political measures proposed and actually taken are...
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issue, we study a model of hyperinflation and learning in an attempt to better understand the volatility in movements of … expectations, money, and prices. The findings surprisingly imply that the dynamics under neural network learning appear to support … the outcome achieved under least squares learning reported in the earlier literature. Relaxing the assumption that …
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In the present paper we question the mainstream diagnosis of Germany’s post-2000 stagnation as well as the prescribed remedies. We show that the ‘institutional sclerosis’ view of Germany’s stagnation is unfounded and that therefore the political measures proposed and actually taken are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764577