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I analyze how the introduction of financial frictions can affect the trade-off between output stabilization and inflation stability and whether, in the presence of financial frictions, the optimal outcome can be realized or approached more closely if monetary policy is allowed to react to...
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In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions affect the transmission process of monetary policy. The...
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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. In this paper, we explore possible justifications. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard model...
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SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum, the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability (IMFS) took the opportunity of the first anniversary of this new institution to organise a joint conference in Berlin on 8-9 November 2011. The purpose of this event was...
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This paper examines the methods used by the Bank of Japan for the estimation of the output gap. Attention is paid to the real-time estimation problem. After reviewing the evolution of output gap estimation at the Bank, I discuss advantages and disadvantages of the various output gap measures....
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Den meisten Akademikern und politischen Entscheidungsträgern zufolge ist Transparenz in der Geldpolitik wünschenswert … der Zentralbank zu schließen, wodurch die laufende Inflation stärker auf stabilitätspolitische Maßnahmen reagiert. Dies … führt dazu, dass die Zentralbank sich eher auf die Inflation als auf die Stabilisierung der Produktionslücke konzentriert …
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On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...
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Foreword (Sabine Mauderer, Vice-President of the Deutsche Bundesbank) -- Introduction (Ursula Schipper, Jens Walter, Robert Kirchner) -- Part I: 100 Years Balance of Payments in Germany: The German Balance of Payments from an Analytical Perspective – Milestones Through History (Axel Jochem,...
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This paper studies the importance of money for inflation in the euro area. An inflation equation is derived from a small model that combines the supply and demand for money with a Phillips curve and the assumption that inflation expectations develop adaptively. The model's solution attributes an...
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