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A vast empirical literature has documented delayed and persistent effects of monetary policy shocks on output. We show that this finding results from the aggregation of output impulse responses that differ sharply depending on the timing of the shock: When the monetary policy shock takes place...
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nominal and real wage rigidity) and social preferences regarding inflation, employment, and real wages. We also calibrate our …
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Several recent studies imply that the response of national saving to fiscal policy is non-monotonic. In this paper, we use two data sets to search for the circumstances in which such non-monotonic responses arise: one refers to a sample of OECD countries, as in previous studies, and one to a...
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at containing inflation and the deviation of output from potential within pre-specified bounds. We develop formal tools … this loss function under weak assumptions may be estimated from realizations for inflation and output gap data even in the … parameters with respect to the inflation and output objectives during the Greenspan period. We formally test for and reject the …
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inflation and the difficulties of East European central banks in pursuing non-inflationary policies. The main obstacles are the …
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situation poses to price stability. We propose to regard the central banker as a risk manager who aims to contain inflation …
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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...
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An inflation and stabilization bias may arise as a result of the principal-agent nature of monetary policy. Both depend … performance-orientated compensation packages can achieve both optimal stabilization and the elimination of the inflation bias. …
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How should monetary and fiscal policy react to adverse financial shocks? If monetary policy is constrained by the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate, subsidising the interest rate on loans is the optimal policy. The subsidies can mimic movements in the interest rate and can therefore...
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Private Sector in order to assist the MPC achieve its objectives? We show that this is not true for symmetric inflation … targeting, where ‘cheap talk’ selects the Pareto dominant equilibrium. (This contrasts with the case where high inflation is … penalised, but not below target inflation). …
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