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This paper studies the Great Inflation in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Newspaper coverage and policymakers …' statements are used to analyze the views on the inflation process that led to the 1970s macroeconomic policies, and the different … to use the monetary policy neglect hypothesis, which claims that the Great Inflation occurred because policymakers …
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We construct an empirical test of whether the anticipation of adoption of inflation targeting affects the inflation … rate. We observe that most of the central banks adopt the regime after first achieving significant disinflation. With pre-inflation …-in-difference framework. We find that inflation targeting is successful in locking-in already low inflation rather than reducing high …
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Part of the present inflation is caused by the breakdown of globalization, in particular supply chains, part is caused … the past and in the presence. This paper attributes inflation decisively to the overwhelming money creation by the …
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This paper summarizes the international evidence on the performance of quantitative easing (QE) as a monetary policy tool when conventional policy rates are constrained by the effective lower bound (ELB). A large body of evidence suggests that expanding the central bank's balance sheet through...
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I consider whether a rules-based fiat money system can outperform the gold standard in delivering economic stability. I discuss the potential objectives of monetary policy in Section 1 and the means for achieving the objective in Section 2. I turn to questions of political economy in Section 3....
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This paper describes the Federal Reserve's framework for implementing monetary policy prior to the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet during the financial crisis. The pre-crisis framework was a reserve-scarcity regime in which banks demanded reserves in order to meet minimum reserve...
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Over the past fourteen years, the U.S. Federal Reserve has rescued overleveraged financial companies, purchased trillions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities, and created novel facilities to support ordinary businesses, nonprofits, and local governments. While some argue that the Fed has...
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Although Central Banks have pursued the same objectives throughout their existence, primarily price and financial stability, the interpretation of their role in doing so has varied. We identify three stable epochs, when such interpretations had stabilised, ie: 1.The Victorian era, 1840s to 1914; 2....
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current inflation rates and adaptive expectations concerning the inflation climate in which the economy operates. The model … Taylor-rule-type interest rate law of motion. Through instrumental variables GMM system estimation with aggregate time series … correction terms, and indirectly of income distribution, in the dynamics of wage and price inflation in the U.S. and the euro …
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imported goods as intermediate production goods. Our estimation results indicate that Hungarian inflation is significantly more … presents the first structural Phillips curve estimations for a New EU Member State economy. We find that Hungarian inflation … inertial than Euro area inflation. Hungarian inflation inertia appears to be the result of pervasive backward looking price …
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