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Inflation persistence or ‘inertia’ has important consequences for monetary policy. Inflation which does not get … influence on inflation persistence by its credibility and responses in the face of inflationary shocks. In this study, we use a … flexible, time-varying parameter approach to analyze inflation persistence in the United Kingdom and United States during 1880 …
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The paper examines a wide variety of models forecasting inflation, consumer survey, professional survey, judgmental … mark a return to inflation below central bank targets, but there is no visibility for timing of this development …
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This paper presents a model that pictures how inflation is determined in a decentralized market process where prices … setters of sequential contracts. An important property of the model is that inflation thus can be explained without any … reference to the quantity of money.Following up the finding that inflation is determined in a coordination game, it is …
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Two extraordinary inflation surprises of the last generation were the longstanding inflation shortfall from central … bank targets and now the pandemic inflationary.Inflation shortfalls can be attributed to characteristics of monetary … inflation. Compounding this problem is a base level of inflation from non-monetary causes, population growth and the natural …
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interest rates and inflation rates. It is argued that the traditional story deriving central bank power from its monopoly of … banks seem to influence interest and inflation rates. Here, we suggest that the explanation is that central banks have …
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policy. The direct inflation targeting strategy used by the European Central Bank in applying its monetary policy has the … first criterion of implementation the expression of inflation target in terms of „headline inflation†(consumer price … consumer price index, this one ensuring the necessary transparency related to the effects of inflation phenomenon. A strong …
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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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This short paper use the perspective of the assignment problem to examine the evolution of the workings of monetary policy and the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England over its first 25 years. It outlines how the Bank, and the MPC, came across additional possible objectives and...
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This paper investigates the forward-lookingness of monetary policy related to stabilising inflation over time under … transition path to the full-fledged inflation targeting regime. The analysis is based on an interest rate-based hybrid monetary …-looking monetary policy rule related to inflation stabilisation. The main results show that monetary policy is fully forward …
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estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of … the euro. Real economic growth as well as median wage developments are reexamined in light of the alternative inflation …
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