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We propose and implement a framework for characterizing and monitoring the global business cycle. Our framework utilizes high-frequency data, allows us to account for a potentially large amount of missing observations, and is designed to facilitate the updating of global activity estimates as...
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We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....
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This Occasional Paper provides an overview of the main challenges facing Hong Kong SAR as it continues to become more closely integrated with the mainland of China. Section I provides an overview of recent macroeconomic developments and the main policy issues in Hong Kong SAR. Section II...
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, the interest rate channel remains weak, even though there is some evidence of transmission to prices of changes in the …
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The paper examines the effects of exchange rate fluctuations on real output and the price level in a sample of 33 … more significant, with varying effects on output growth and price inflation across developing countries. …
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Prices in Russia have been decontrolled in several steps since early 1991, after decades of near-fixity. Their behavior … before and after the January 1992 price liberalization is analyzed here, as are the associated movements of wages and overall …
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The Maastricht inflation criterion, designed in the early 1990s to bring "high-inflation" EU countries in line with "low-inflation" countries prior to the introduction of the euro, poses challenges for both new EU member countries and the European Central Bank. While the criterion has positively...
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This paper uses a two-sector model to estimate the relationship between prices, money, and the exchange rate in … monetary aggregates, domestic prices, real income, and foreign interest rates. In addition, the error-correction model shows …
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This paper examines the impact of a monetary policy shock on output, prices, and the nominal effective exchange rate … main results suggest that an exogenous increase in the short-term interest rate tends to be followed by a decline in prices … variations in the short-term interest rate account for significant fluctuations in the nominal exchange rate and prices, while …
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output gap, and the real money gap. Using heterogeneous panel cointegration estimation techniques, we estimate cointegrating …
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