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An economy is in a liquidity trap when monetary policy cannot influence either real or nominal variables of interest. A necessary condition for this is that the short nominal interest rate is constrained by its lower bound, typically zero. The paper considers two small analytical models, one...
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case of inflation targeting where the monetary policy instrument is set after looking at the current values of inflation … hypothetical scenario of inflation targeting suggests a sharper response of the interest rate (monetary policy instrument) to …
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This article looks at the preconditions that an emerging economy needs to fulfill, before it can adopt inflation … to the independent conduct of monetary policy. This study concludes that inflation band targeting with a wide target …
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The paper draws lessons from the experience of the past year for the conduct of central banks in the pursuit of macroeconomic and financial stability. Macroeconomic stability is defined as either price stability or as price stability and sustainable output or employment growth. Financial...
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two-way communication between the central bank and the public affects inflation dynamics. When inflation target is … hence the bank can stabilize inflation. However, when inflation target is unobservable or less credible, the public updates … their perceived inflation target and the information revealed from markets to the bank becomes less perfect. The degree of …
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A vast empirical literature has documented delayed and persistent effects of monetary policy shocks on output. We show that this finding results from the aggregation of output impulse responses that differ sharply depending on the timing of the shock: when the monetary policy shock takes place...
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Systematic differences in the timing of wage setting decisions among industrialized countries provide an ideal framework to study the importance of wage rigidity in the transmission of monetary policy. The Japanese Shunto presents the most well-known case of bunching in wage setting decisions:...
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A large literature has documented statistically significant effects of monetary policy on economic activity. The central explanation for how monetary policy transmits to the real economy relies critically on nominal rigidities, which form the basis of the New Keynesian (NK) framework. This paper...
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Systematic differences in the timing of wage setting decisions among industrialized countries provide an ideal framework to study the importance of wage rigidity in the transmission of monetary policy. The Japanese Shunto, for example, presents a clear case of bunching in wage setting decisions:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071407
A stylized fact of US inflation dynamics is one of extreme persistence and possible unit root behavior. If so, the … representation of the inflation process, the nonlinear ESTAR, rather than the IMA process with time-varying parameters as in Stock … Reserve inflation targets. We address the issue of whether the source of the Great Moderation can be ascribed to good luck …
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