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In this article we consider two arguments suggesting that monetary authorities in an open economy should target output price inflation and not consumer price inflation. The first suggests that output price inflation corresponds to the distortions caused by price rigidity. The second shows how...
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We present a crisis model which illustrates how oil price shocks led to the resulting collapse of the fixed exchange rate system in Russia. We discuss crucial weaknesses of the Russian economy and argue that the reason it was particularly vulnerable to shocks was that the government and the...
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This paper studies the interactions of fiscal policy and monetary policy when they stabilize a single economy against shocks in a dynamic setting. If both policy-makers are benevolent, then, in our model, the best outcome is achieved when monetary policy does nearly all of the stabilization. If...
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