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Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...
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the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the … strict to an average inflation targeting framework especially benefits workers with lower labor force attachment. …
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combine low inflation targets and high levels of wealth inequality. …
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inflation at near-zero nominal interest rates. We show how (conventional and unconventional) monetary policy shocks enlarge the … ability to explain the facts, such that the theory supports both a negative and a positive response of inflation. Central to …
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model of inflation dynamics to evaluate monetary policies that rely on going long. It concludes that these policies for the … most part fail to keep inflation under control. A complementary methodological contribution is to re-state the classic … integrate the endogenous determination of inflation and the term structure of interest rates. …
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. Even if monetary policy is found to react only mildly to inflation pre-Volcker, the substantial degrees of bounded …
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We study how investors respond to inflation combining a customized survey experiment with trading data at a time of … historically high inflation. Investors’ beliefs about the stock return-inflation relation are very heterogeneous in the cross … section and on average too optimistic. Moreover, many investors appear unaware of inflation-hedging strategies despite being …
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The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … high inflation to a low-growth period with exceptionally low inflation since the early 1990s. We show based on a stylized …
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This paper aims to show why Irving Fisher's own data on interest rates and inflation in New York, London, Paris, Berlin … changes in inflation, not even in the long run. In Fisher's data, interest rates have more persistence than inflation and … change less than inflation over time. The Fisher effect is a misnomer unless it is taken to refer to what Fisher actually …
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This paper reviews the literature on the effects of low steady-state inflation on wage formation, focusing on four … different effects. First, under low inflation, downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR) may prevent real wage cuts that would have … happened had inflation been higher. Second, wages (and prices) are given in nominal contracts, and inflation affects both how …
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