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bank as leader operating according to the rule by Orphanides and Wieland (2013) implies smaller potential costs due to …
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central bank rates in the United States and the euro area. Furthermore, the paper includes a large-scale comparison of the … effects in investment financing, credit and house price booms and a role for bank capital. A final exercise illustrates how …
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central bank rates in the United States and the euro area. Furthermore, the paper includes a large-scale comparison of the … effects in investment financing, credit and house price booms and a role for bank capital. A final exercise illustrates how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527276
This paper employs stochastic simulations of a small structural rational expectations model to investigate the consequences of the zero bound on nominal interest rates. We find that if the economy is subject to stochastic shocks similar in magnitude to those experienced in the U.S. over the...
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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 study the role of the exchange rate in conducting monetary policy in an economy with near-zero nominal interest rates as experienced in Japan since the mid-1990s. Our analysis is based on an estimated model of Japan, the United States and the euro area with rational expectations...
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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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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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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the state of macroeconomic modeling and the use of macroeconomic models in policy analysis has come under heavy criticism. Macroeconomists in academia and policy institutions have been blamed for relying too much on a particular class of...
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