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inflation combined with a free float seems to be the ultimate option. The paper shows how to design and operationalize such a …
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for establishing the other building blocks of an inflation targeting framework. It argues that strengthening the … effectiveness of the current monetary policy framework will facilitate the adoption of inflation targeting over time. …
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In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating …-maximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting a target for headline CPI inflation with some weight on the …
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considers inflation targeting in a small open economy. This economy is characterized by imperfect competition and short … inflation targeting on output and inflation volatility depend crucially on the exchange rate regime and the inflation index … nominal shocks the reverse is true. Second, domestically generated inflation targeting is preferable to CPI inflation …
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inflation forecast targeting regime in Sri Lanka. The FPAS model provides a relatively good forecast for inflation and a … framework to evaluate policy trade-offs. The model simulations suggest that an open-economy inflation targeting rule can reduce … could aim to target a broad inflation range initially due to its susceptibility supply-side shocks while enhancing exchange …
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Monetary aggregates continue to play an important role in the ECB's policy strategy. This paper revisits the case for money, surveying the ongoing theoretical and empirical debate. The key conclusion is that an exclusive focus on non-monetary factors alone may leave the ECB with an incomplete...
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follows a rule that can be characterized as inflation targeting with a high degree of interest rate smoothing. During …
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The large swings in world food prices in recent years renew interest in the question of how monetary policy in small open economies should react to such imported price shocks. We examine this issue in a canonical open economy setting with sticky prices and where food plays a distinctive role in...
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We develop a tractable open-economy new-Keynesian model with two sectors to analyze the short-term effects of aid-financed fiscal expansions. We distinguish between spending the aid, which is under the control of the fiscal authorities, and absorbing the aid-using the aid to finance a higher...
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This paper proposes a new method of estimating the Taylor rule with a time-varying implicit inflation target and a time …-varying natural rate of interest. The inflation target and the natural rate are modeled as random walks and are estimated using …
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