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natural rate to a fertility shock crucially depends on the preference parameter determining how households weight generations … population growth has lowered both the natural rate and inflation by about 0.4 percentage points in recent decades. …
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We develop a New Keynesian (NK) model with endogenous price setting frequency. Whether a firm updates its price in a given period depends on an analysis of expected cost and benefits modelled by a discrete choice process. A firm decides to update the price when expected benefits outweigh...
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, effective revenue ceilings induce an increase in deficit, debt and inflation. Under many scenarios, including recurrent adverse …
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responds to inflation and output volatility, especially during economic crises. This framework offers a promising alternative …
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Excessive inflation is usually attributed to the lack of central bank's credibility. In this context, most of the …. Indeed, the degree of central bank's transparency influences the effectiveness of its policy to stabilize inflation in terms …
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Two signaling games of monetary policy are considered: game one examines the effect of hysteresis on the labor market on the results of the repeated monetary policy game. Disciplinary effects of reputation disappear in presence of hysteresis. The second game compares weifare effects of monetary...
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This paper proposes a tractable New Keynesian (NK) economy with endogenous adjustment in product quality that nests the canonical framework. Endogenous quality choice reduces the slope of the traditional NK Phillips curve and ampliffes the economy's response to productivity shocks. This leads to...
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current operating procedures and make monetary policies more effective in fighting inflation. …
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Empirical evidence suggests consumers rely on their shopping experiences to form beliefs about inflation. In other …. Learning by shopping anchors households' beliefs about inflation to its past, causing disagreement with firms over the value of … inflation, increases the degree of anchoring of households' inflation expectations, and flattens the slope of the Phillips curve …
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In 2001, the Fed has lowered interest rates in a series of cuts, starting from 6.5 per cent at the end of 2000 to 2.0 per cent by early November. This paper asks, whether the Federal Reserve Bank has been surprising the markets, taking as given the conventional view about the effect of monetary...
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