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Speed limit policies : the output gap and optimal monetary policy
Walsh, Carl E. - 2001
In a standard New Keynesian model, a myopic central bank concerned with stabilizing inflation and changes in the output gap will implement a policy under discretion that replicates the optimal, timeless perspective, precommitment policy. By stabilizing output gap changes, the central bank...
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Structural distortions and decentralized fiscal policies in EMU
Beetsma, Roel; Bovenberg, Ary Lans - 2001
The combination of discretionary monetary policy, labor-market distortions and nominal wage rigidity yields an inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a...
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Perceptions about monetary policy
Bauer, Michael D.; Pflueger, Carolin E.; Sunderam, Adi - 2022
We estimate perceptions about the Fed's monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions is time-varying and cyclical: high during tightening episodes but low...
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Redistribution and the monetary-fiscal policy mix
Bhattarai, Saroj; Lee, Jae Won; Yang, Choongryul - 2020
We show that the effectiveness of redistribution policy in stimulating the economy and improving welfare is directly tied to how much inflation it generates, which in turn hinges on monetary-fiscal adjustments that ultimately finance the transfers. We compare two distinct types of...
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Inflation targeting by debtor central banks in emerging market economies
Löffler, Axel; Schnabl, Gunther; Schobert, Franziska - 2010
to accumulate massive foreign reserves. If left unsterilized, the liquidity expansion can threaten domestic macroeconomic … stability. To contain domestic inflation these central banks absorb rather then provide liquidity in their regular monetary … surplus liquidity is less efficient, because absorbing liquidity raises the costs of monetary policy operations. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994520
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Does institutional change really matter? : inflation targets, central bank reform and interest rate policy in the OECD countries
Muscatelli, V. Anton; Tirelli, Patrizio; Trecroci, Carmine - 2000
We estimate forward-looking interest-rate reaction functions for the G3 economies and for a group of countries which recently adopted inflation targets. Some significant shifts in the conduct of monetary policy are detected in the G3 countries, especially in the US A and Japan. In contrast with...
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Assessing monetary policy in Norway
Andreassen, Harald Magnus; De Grauwe, Paul; Solheim, Haakon - 2001
We evaluate the policy of flexible inflation targeting implemented by the Norges Bank since March 2001. We discuss the reasons why the real interest rates are significantly higher in Norway than in the rest of Europe. Finally we propose some institutional changes that can improve the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408405
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Designing the policy mix in a monetary union
Kempf, Hubert - 2020
This paper studies the design of the policy mix in a monetary union, that is, the institutional arrangement specifying the relationships between the various policymakers present in the union and the extent of their capacity of action. It is assumed that policymakers do not cooperate. Detailing...
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Inflation targeting and nonlinear policy rules : the case of asymmetric preferences : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on the Revival of Aggregate Demand Manag...
Surico, Paolo - 2004
This paper investigates the empirical relevance of a new framework for monetary policy analysis in which the decision-makers are allowed to weight differently positive and negative deviations of inflation and output from the target values. Reduced-form and structural estimates of the central...
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Is optimal monetary policy always optimal?
Davig, Troy; Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2015
No. And not only for the reason you think. In a world with multiple inefficiencies the single policy tool the central bank has control over will not undo all inefficiencies; this is well understood. We argue that the world is better characterized by multiple inefficiencies and multiple policy...
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