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extent to which inflation expectations are formed by the announced targets. As the credibility of the central bank increases … target. Credibility enables expectation to be formed in a forward-looking way by weakening its connection with the past. This … study aims to contribute to the literature concerning the effects of credibility on monetary policy. For this purpose, using …
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extent to which inflation expectations are formed by the announced targets. As the credibility of the central bank increases … target. Credibility enables expectation to be formed in a forward-looking way by weakening its connection with the past. This … study aims to contribute to the literature concerning the effects of credibility on monetary policy. For this purpose, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014558525
flexibility and credibility; similarly, New Zealand's improved inflation performance was achieved without a discernable increase …
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This paper analyzes the time-varying credibility of the Fed's inflation target in an empirical macro model with … across monetary policy regimes. I find that imperfect credibility is pronounced during the Volcker Disinflation and to a …
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In 1991, Canada became the second country to adopt an inflation target as a central pillar of its monetary policy framework. The regime has proven much more successful than initially expected, both in achieving price stability and in stabilizing the real economy against a wide range of shocks....
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Interpretations of inflation targeting (IT) have ranged widely, from "inflation-only targeting" without regard for output, to cheap talk without effect, to transparency increasing flexibility without cost. We characterize five interpretations of the adoption of IT as shifts between strategies in...
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macroeconomic environment. We find that central bank credibility is negatively associated with the level of inflation target …
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credibility. Vestin (2006) shows that when the monetary authority cannot commit to future policy, price-level targeting yields … higher welfare than inflation targeting. We revisit this issue by introducing imperfect credibility, which is modeled as … targeting, if any, are small. -- Credibility ; Monetary policy framework …
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credibility. Vestin (2006) shows that when the monetary authority cannot commit to future policy, price-level targeting yields … higher welfare than inflation targeting. We revisit this issue by introducing imperfect credibility, which is modeled as … targeting are small. A welfare loss occurs, if imperfect credibility is highly persistent. -- Credibility ; Monetary policy …
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macroeconomic environment. We find that central bank credibility is negatively associated with the level of inflation target … targeting ; central bank ; inflation ; credibility ; independence …
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