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In this paper, we study the effectiveness of monetary policy in a severe recession and deflation when nominal interest rates are bounded at zero. We compare two alternative proposals for ameliorating the effect of the zero bound: an exchange-rate peg and price-level targeting. We conduct this...
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In this paper, we examine the cost of insurance against model uncertainty for the Euro area considering four alternative reference models, all of which are used for policy-analysis at the ECB.We find that maximal insurance across this model range in terms of aMinimax policy comes at moderate...
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In this paper we compare expected loss minimization to worst-case or minimax analysis in the design of simple Taylor-style rules for monetary policy using a small model estimated for the euro area by Orphanides and Wieland (2000). We find that rules optimized under a minimax objective in the...
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Under a conventional policy rule, a central bank adjusts its policy rate linearly according to the gap between … central bank controls inflation aggressively when inflation is far from its target, but concentrates more on output …
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The establishment of the ECB and with it the launch of the euro has arguably been a unique endeavor in economic history, representing an important experiment in central banking. This note aims to summarize some of the main lessons learned from this experiment and sketch some of the prospects for...
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The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard model of the monetary transmission process that underlies many … deviations of long-run money growth helps the central bank to overcome this bias. Our argument in favor of ECB-style cross …
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The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … criticism for this decision. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard …
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bank acts to bring inflation under control, price-setting firms revise their estimates of the degree of persistence. Such … is found to influence the likelihood that firms switch from backward-looking indexation to the central bank's targets. As …
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-check for monetary policy. We identify an important source of monetary trends in form of persistent central bank misperceptions …
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the possibility of persistent central bank misperceptions. Such misperceptions motivate the search for policies that … significant cross-check with monetary information, when the New-Keynesian model is the central bank's preferred model. The cross …-check is shown to be effective in offsetting persistent deviations of inflation due to central bank misperceptions. …
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