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President Santomero reviews both the areas of agreement and those open to debate and offers his perspective on them. He concludes with some thoughts about the implications for the conduct of monetary policy.
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Do monetary policy actions have a uniform national effect? Or do the separate, but interdependent, regions of the country respond differently to changes in policy? In this article, Jerry Carlino and Bob DeFina demonstrate that monetary policy does have differential effects across regions. They...
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Should monetary policymakers in the U.S. adopt explicit inflation targeting? After all, the Fed has steadily reduced … inflation over the past 25 years without resorting to an explicit inflation target. But having achieved price stability, we must … now deal with the matter of maintaining it. In "Monetary Policy and Inflation Targeting in the United States," President …
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President Anthony Santomero points out that conducting a successful monetary policy presents real-world challenges, such as evaluating where the economy is, where it is going, and where it should be going. But how do monetary policymakers make decisions about the economy in a world with...
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Inflation expectations play a central role in models of the Phillips curve. At long time horizons inflation … importance of inflation expectations for monetary policy. These comments touch on three issues regarding inflation expectations …: The evolving treatment of inflation expectations in empirical Phillips curve models; three recent models of information …
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We explain Canadian target rate decisions using macroeconomic variables as well as Bank of Canada (BOC) and Federal Reserve (Fed) communication indicators. Econometrically, we employ an ordered probit model of a Taylor rule to explain and predict 60 target rate decisions between 1998 and 2006....
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Inflation forecasts of the Federal Reserve seem to have systematically under-predicted inflation from the fourth … Reserve's inflation forecasts. The results suggest that the cost of having inflation above an implicit time-varying target was … larger than the cost of having inflation below it for the period since Volcker, and that the opposite was true for the pre …
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