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The paper is concerned with determinacy in a version of the New-Keynesian model that integrates imperfect competition and nominal price and wage setting on goods and labour markets. The model is reformulated with an explicit period of arbitrary length and shown to remain well-defined as the...
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This paper attempts to answer question similar to that asked by Ireland (2003): What explains the correlations between nominal and real variables in postwar US data? More precisely, this paper aims to investigate whether endogenous money, sticky wages, or some combination of the two, are...
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strategies with a strong history dependence lose their advantage over inflation targeting in mitigating a demand …-driven recessions when interest rates are constrained by the ELB. For supply shocks, inflation t argeting o utperforms h istory …-dependent r ules f or a s ufficiently high degree of BR. An exponential average inflation targeting rule, which features a …
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This paper studies the optimal long-run inflation rate in a labor search and matching framework in the presence of … downward nominal wage rigidity. Optimal monetary policy features positive inflation in the long run; the optimal annual long …-run inflation rate for the U.S. economy is slightly below 1 percent with a money demand motive and around 2 percent otherwise …
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Global inflation has risen sharply from its lows in mid-2020, on rebounding global demand, supply bottlenecks, and … soaring food and energy prices, especially since the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine. Markets expect inflation to … developments, the risk of stagflation-a combination of high inflation and sluggish growth-has risen. The recovery from the …
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We develop a novel method for the identification of monetary policy shocks. By applying natural language processing techniques to documents that Federal Reserve staff prepare in advance of policy decisions, we capture the Fed's information set. Using machine learning techniques, we then predict...
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inflation presumably caused by oil price increases. In this paper a structural cointegrated VAR model has been considered for … to fight inflation. In turn, increases in interest rates are transmitted to real economy by reducing output growth and … the inflation rate …
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This paper examines the responses of prices at different stages of production to an explicitly identified demand shock: a monetary policy shock. The frameworks of Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (1994, 1996) and Sims and Zha (1995b) are used to identify the policy shock as the innovation to...
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This paper develops a general equilibrium monetary model with performance incentives to study the inflation …-unemployment relationship. A long-run downward-sloping Phillips curve can exist with perfectly anticipated inflation because workers' incentive … to exert effort depend on financial market returns. Consequently, higher inflation rates can reduce wages and stimulate …
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subsidies), we show that a negative oil price shock contracts aggregate GDP, boosts non-oil GDP, increases headline inflation … contractionary effect of a negative oil price shock on aggregate GDP is moderated, headline inflation decreases, while the exchange …
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