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Inflation persistence or ‘inertia’ has important consequences for monetary policy. Inflation which does not get … influence on inflation persistence by its credibility and responses in the face of inflationary shocks. In this study, we use a … flexible, time-varying parameter approach to analyze inflation persistence in the United Kingdom and United States during 1880 …
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as well as conducting policy analysis. QPM incorporates several India-specific features like the importance of the … agricultural sector and food prices in the inflation process; features of monetary policy transmission and implications of an …
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India formally adopted flexible inflation targeting (FIT) in June 2016 to place price stability, defined in terms of a … target CPI inflation, as the primary objective of monetary policy. In this context, the paper draws on Indian macroeconomic … illustrating the key issues given the unique structural characteristics of India and the policy options under an FIT framework, the …
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Inflation in Israel has been below the inflation target for over two years now and inflation expectations at short … horizons have followed actual inflation to below the target. The low inflation outturns are the result of sharp, negative … domestic policy mandated price declines. A number of other countries are also experiencing below-target inflation. This paper …
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This paper studies the importance of money for inflation in the euro area. An inflation equation is derived from a … small model that combines the supply and demand for money with a Phillips curve and the assumption that inflation … expectations develop adaptively. The model's solution attributes an impact on inflation not to actual money growth but to its core …
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The link between inflation and inflation uncertainty is evaluated using Peruvian data, in a context of changing … components is used. The model shows how periods of high (low) inflation accompany periods of high (low) short- and long …-run uncertainty in inflation. The results of the model also illustrate how, during the recent period of price stability in Peru, both …
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Deflation counts among the worst things that could happen to an economy, the conventional wisdom tells us. But are falling prices really that bad? According to the Austrian School of Economics, this is not necessarily the case. A distinction is commonly made between (1) growth, (2)...
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This paper contributes to a better understanding of how inflation targets are set. First, we gather evidence on how … inflation targets are set from official central bank and government publications and from a questionnaire of our own design …. Second, we estimate the determinants of the level of the inflation target in 19 inflation-targeting countries using …
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This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding on how inflation targets are set. For this reason, we first … inflation targets are set; we then estimate the determinants of the level of inflation target in 19 inflation targeting … than as a point). Inflation targets are found to reflect macroeconomic fundamentals. Higher level as well as higher …
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The main objective of this study is to investigate the long run trade-off between unemployment and inflation in Egypt … analysis confirm a positive relationship between changes in inflation rate and unemployment gap in the long run, which is … consistent with “Locus Critique” where a policy of inflation would fail to reduce the unemployment rate in the long run, because …
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