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We derive Taylor rates for those CEE-EU countries which are not part of the Eurozone. The degree of heterogeneity decreased tremendously over time (2005 - 2015). Nevertheless, the business cycles are still not fully synchronized. As a consequence, joining the Eurozone seems to be premature and...
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of their specific occupational background. Third, party members react significantly less to inflation and more to output …
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We combine questions from the Michigan Survey about the future path of prices, interest rates, and unemployment to investigate whether households are aware of the basic features of U.S. monetary policy. Our ndings support the view that at least some groups of households form their expectations...
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of inflation before beginning to raise the target federal funds rate, thereby shifting to a more accommodative policy …
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This paper investigates the identification, the determinacy and the stability of ad hoc, "quasi-optimal" and optimal policy rules augmented with financial stability indicators (such as asset prices deviations from their fundamental values) and minimizing the volatility of the policy interest...
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variables, such as inflation, the output gap, its foreign exchange position and government borrowing. …
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and disadvantages of the various output gap measures. First, I examine the usefulness of the output gap for inflation …
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Do central banks in Eastern European countries react asymmetrically and in a non-linear fashion to changes in inflation … and output? We tackle this question by expanding the standard Taylor reaction function for the four inflation targeting … countries Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Romania. We do so taking explicitly inflation rates below or above target and …
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before and after the Real plan, which stabilized inflation in July 1994. The results show that the interest rate response to … inflation was greater than one-to-one before stabilization and smaller than that afterwards, hence inverting the Taylor …
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