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Following the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98, a number of Asian central banks adopted inflation targeting. While it … is possible for the average inflation rate to be close to target, deviations of inflation could nevertheless be large and … protracted. We therefore explore how successful this framework has been by looking at the persistence of inflation, as measured …
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reaction function. The parameter estimates differ in two regards: the NEER responds to inflation in Singapore but not in Hong … variability of inflation has been lower in Singapore, but the volatility of real economic activity has been similar in the two …
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This paper estimates a monetary policy reaction function for the ECB over the period 1999-2009. To allow for a potential shift in interest rate setting during the financial crisis, we permit a smooth transition from one set of parameters to another. The estimates show a swift change in the...
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We make three points. First, the decade before the financial crisis in 2007 was characterized by a collapse in the yield on TIPS. Second, estimated VARs for the federal funds rate and the TIPS yield show that while monetary policy shocks had negligible effects on the TIPS yield, shocks to the...
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We analyze the impact of monetary policy instruments on interbank lending rates and retail bank lending in China using an extended version of the model of Porter and Xu (2009). Unlike the Central banks of advanced economies, the People's Bank of China uses changes in the required reserve ratios...
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band spectrum regression to study the determination of inflation in Japan. We find that inflation is related to money … reflects Granger causality from money growth and the output gap to inflation in the relevant frequency bands. Keywords …
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