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. Quantitative goals take three forms: exchange rates, money growth rates, and inflation targets. We analyse the effects on inflation … determinants of inflation (such as fiscal policy, the business cycle, and openness to international trade), and the endogeneity of … systematically and robustly associated with lower inflation. The exact form of the monetary target matters somewhat, but is less …
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We document that an increase in government purchases generates a rise in consumption, the real and the product wage, and a fall in the markup. This evidence is robust across alternative empirical methodologies used to identify innovations in government spending (structural VAR vs. narrative...
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In earlier work we documented two episodes in which a sharp fiscal consolidation was associated with a surprisingly large expansion in private domestic demand. In this paper we draw on further evidence to investigate if and when fiscal policy changes can have such non-Keynesian effects. In the...
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This paper proposes a theoretical explanation of the empirical finding that private consumption increases in response to an increase in government spending. The explanation requires two ingredients. First, labor demand expands (e.g. prices are sticky). Second, general non-separable preferences...
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Korea has adopted much of the apparatus of inflation targeting, with a band for target inflation and a Monetary Policy … trade and investment as Korea, currency movements contain information useful for forecasting inflation and the output gap … information relevant for the inflation forecast. In addition, the central bank responds to movements in the exchange rate for …
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be held constant in the face of a domestic inflation. In this circumstance, import duties and export subsidies would have … in line with domestic inflation. Unless such a passive policy is accompanied by the elimination of trade barriers …
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much sharper rise in inflation than measured by the official price indices, whose quality was called into question. In this … determinants. Since these data do not rely on official inflation statistics, they provide an independent check for the latter. We … not recorded by official inflation statistics. We do not find evidence in support of this hypothesis. …
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This paper assembles an original panel of data from 2,500 restaurants in Italy over the 1998-2004 period. The main objective is to study whether the euro cash changeover had an impact on individual pricing behaviour, as it seems to be perceived by consumers. Although the sample is not...
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government to maintain a socially efficient policy of zero inflation for most of the game, without any formal precommitment … supports the results of Backus and Driffill and of Barro, in that the uncertainty induces low or zero inflation outcomes in the …
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expected means of future interest rates, exchange rates and inflation. More recently, these methods have been refined to rely …
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