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regime during a deceleration in economic activity and with headline and core inflation remaining well below the FOMC's 2 … percent inflation target. Moreover, both short- and long-term inflation expectations were drifting lower. These developments …
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Neo-Fisherites argue that conventional central banking wisdom has inflation control wrong, in that the way to increase … (reduce) inflation is to increase (reduce) the central bank’s nominal interest rate target …
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The response of major central banks to the global financial crisis has revived the debate around the interactions between monetary policy (MP) and bank stability. This technical paper sheds light, quantitatively, on the different mechanisms underlying the relationship between MP and bank...
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's depreciation, higher stock prices, and higher corporate profits. Meanwhile, the impacts on aggregate demand and inflation have not … underlying inflation approaches 2%. Leaving room for additional monetary accommodation in the event of severe recession is also …
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Abstract Negative interest rates policies (NIRP), usually depicted in economic textbooks as an impossibility due to the prospect of infinite demand for money, are now a reality in several countries due to different reasons. But while the ZLB has been surpassed when it comes to Central Banks, it...
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The last decade has witnessed two groundbreaking developments in monetary economics: The growth in digital private currencies and negative interest rate policies (NIRP), leaving the zero lower bound no longer binding. These developments have introduced two parallel discussions surrounding the...
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In this paper we estimate simple Taylor rules paying particular attention to interest rate smoothing. Following English, Nelson, and Sack (2002), we employ a model in first differences to gain some insights into the presence and signifcance of the degree of partial adjustment as opposed to a...
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banks set interest rate targets, and do not even pretend to control money supplies. How is inflation determined under an …We finally have a complete theory of inflation under interest rate targets, that mirrors the long-run neutrality and … frictionless limit of monetary theory: Inflation can be stable and determinate under interest rate targets, including a k percent …
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This paper presents evidence on the lag between monetary policy actions and the response of inflation in the euro area … regime thereafter. Results based on alternative definitions of inflation persistence support these findings, although, they … suggest that a drop in German inflation persistence and a shift in the mean of inflation - particularly in Italy and France …
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than rules that also include current or future inflation …
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