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Hubrich, Kirstin - 2003

Monitoring and forecasting price developments in the euro area is essential in the light of the second pillar of the ECBu0092s monetary policy strategy. This study analyses whether the forecasting accuracy of forecasting aggregate euro area inﬂation can be improved by aggregating forecasts of...

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Zero lower bound

Coenen, Günter - 2003

such as the shortterm nominal interest rate, annual inflation and output. …

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Exchange rates and fundamentals

Engel, Charles; West, Kenneth David - 2003

supplies, outputs, inflation rates and interest rates. Nonetheless, it has been well documented that such variables little help …

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Maintaining price stability under free-floating

Detken, Carsten; Gaspar, Vítor - 2003

The behaviour of the exchange rate under a floating exchange rate regime for a small open economy with perfect capital mobility may appear like a managed float or even a firmer peg. We present a canonical new neo-classical synthesis open economy model where the central bank follows a strategy...

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Volatility of interest rates in the euro area

Cassola, Nuno; Morana, Claudio - 2003

This paper estimates the factors underlying the volatility of the euro overnight interest rate and its transmission along the euro area money market yield curve. A new multivariate unobserved components model is proposed allowing for both long-memory and stationary cyclical dynamics. Using...

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Describing the Fed's conduct with Taylor rules

Castelnuovo, Efrem - 2003

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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Price stability and monetary policy effectiveness when nominal interest rates are bounded at zero

Coenen, Günter; Orphanides, Athanasios; Wieland, Volker - 2003

target inﬂation rates as low as 2 percent. However, the effects of the constraint are non-linear with respect to the inﬂation … percent. The variability of output increases signiﬁcantly and that of inﬂation also rises somewhat. Also, we show that the … increasingly short of potential with lower inﬂation targets. …

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A digital compass for decision makers : toolkit on disruptive technologies, impact and areas for action

Strategic Policy Foru on Digital Entrepreneurship - 2016

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How frequently do prices change?

Aucremanne, Luc; Dhyne, Emmanuel - 2004

This paper examines the degree of price rigidity in Belgian consumer prices, using a large database. As to the observed degree of rigidity, the results reveal a substantial amount of heterogeneity, not only across but also within product categories. While prices turn out to be perfectly flexible...

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Consumer inflation expectations in Poland

£yziak, Tomasz - 2003

Inflation expectations constitute a subject of particular contemporary interest to central banks, especially those … pursuing a monetary policy based on a strategy of direct inflation targeting. Macroeconomic theory indicates that the … to properties of inflation expectations. Qualitative data on inflation expectations, as obtained from surveys, can be …

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