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I study the impact of banking market concentration and wholesale funding reliance on the transmission of monetary policy shocks to mortgage rates. I empirically demonstrate that in the United States, banks with higher reliance on wholesale funding in concentrated (competitive) deposit markets...
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transition from a currency peg to inflation targeting that took place in 1999. The estimated model exhibits quite different … higher inflation and interest rates, and slightly lower GDP. Finally, the first half of 1998 arguably provided a window of …
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This paper evaluates inflation forecasts made by Norges Bank which is recognized as a successful forecast targeting … central bank. It is reasonable to expect that Norges Bank produces inflation forecasts that are on average better than other … margin. An explanation in terms of too high speed of adjustment to the inflation target is supported by the evidence. Norges …
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type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank …
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Inflation Targeting for a set of developed and emerging market economies. We use a structural VAR model to estimate the effect … emerging than for developed economies, and that it has decreased after the adoption of Inflation Targeting. We then use several … foreign exchange market intervention after the adoption of Inflation Targeting. As the exchange rate pass-through still …
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This paper analyzes the stabilizing properties of alternative monetary policy regimes. In practice there is a choice between two broad types of monetary policy regimes: a fixed exchange rate regime or a floating exchange rate regime. In this paper I compare exchange rate targeting with different...
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bank not concerned with financial stability, reacting to inflation and output is considered optimal. Third, including …
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Many central banks whose exchange rate regimes are classified as flexible are reluctant to let the exchange rate fluctuate. This phenomenon is known as "fear of floating". We present a simple theory in which fear of floating emerges as an optimal policy outcome. The key feature of the model is...
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We propose a novel framework to gauge the credibility of central banks' commitment to an inflation-targeting regime … inflation targeting makes economic agents change their perception about central bank decisions. Specifically, using the Reserve … Bank of India's adoption of inflation targeting in 2015 as a laboratory, we apply two different approaches to estimate a …
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Since the work of Doepke and Schneider (2006a) and Meh and Terajima (2008), we know that inflation causes major … same country. Two types of monetary policy, inflation targeting (IT) and price level targeting (PT), have very different … ; Inflation: costs and benefits ; Inflation targets ; Inflation and prices …
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