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An important issue in small open-economies is whether policymakers should respond to exchange rate movements when they formulate monetary policy. Micro-founded models tend to suggest that there is little to be gained from responding to exchange rate movements, and the literature has largely...
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the similarity of transmission mechanisms in New Zealand and Australia and consider the implications this has for a … using this methodology for New Zealand and Australia remain quite fragile, our analysis nevertheless suggests that the … transmission mechanisms in New Zealand and Australia do display many similarities. In particular the adjustments of both GDP and …
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The optimal control literature traditionally analyzes linear-quadratic Gaussian (LQG) formulations of macroeconomic policy design where policy planers seek to minimize the distance between a direct target vector y and a vector of aspiration levels y*, using a suitably dimensioned matrix M as a...
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three countries that adopted inflation targets in the early 1990s: The United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand. For all … in counter-inflationary conservatism. The results for Canada are less clear, perhaps reflecting the broader fiscal and …
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Counterfactual experiments with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's core model provide some insight into the implications for New Zealand's economic performance over the 1990s, had it credibly fixed its currency to the Australian dollar. If New Zealand had faced the relatively more stimulatory...
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This article examines the monetary arrangements between Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom from the 1820s to …
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Monetary policy in CEE is an important determinant in the wage bargaining process, because trade unions have to predict inflation as one component of future real wages. This paper scrutinizes whether countries in CEE that officially announce an inflation target are tempted to act...
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We employ a model-based approach in an ex-post evaluation of monetary policy decisions taken by the Bank of Israel during the years 2001-2010. Using ex-post information, we test, for each individual year, whether there could have been a Pareto improvement in inflation and output volatilities....
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The article assessed the treatment effects of targeting inflation regime on the real output and consumer inflation persistence in both advanced and emerging market economies. An empirical analysis is based on data from 35 OECD and 40 emerging countries and covers inflation and non-inflation...
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