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A major challenge for monetary policy has been predicting how exchange rate movements will impact inflation. We propose …
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. Previous literature has highlighted the role of an economy's "structure" - such as its inflation volatility, inflation rate …, forecasts predicting how a given exchange rate movement will impact inflation at a specific point in time should take into …
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We investigate the extent to which the effect of the 2018/2019 US import tariff hikes on US (post-tariff) import prices was offset by the concurrent appreciation of the US dollar and trace the source of the appreciation back to US trade policy itself. The dollar response to trade policy...
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Long-term inflation expectations taken from the Survey of Professional Forecasters are a major source of information … information content of inflation-linked swap rates for the next survey outcome. Using a mixed data sampling approach, we find that … professionals account for the daily dynamics of inflation swap rates when they submit their long-term inflation expectations. We …
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This paper is devoted to a new estimation of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) for the West …
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Dynamic pricing is a widely employed pricing strategy for goods and services in which firms flexibly set prices, taking into account current market conditions. This paper studies theoretically and empirically the role of this pricing strategy in explaining the heterogeneous response of consumer...
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This paper provides an explanation for the observed decline of the exchange rate pass-through into import prices by modeling the effects of financial market integration on the optimal choice of the pricing currency in the context of rigid nominal goods prices. Contrary to previous literature, we...
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The United Kingdom is a highly open economy, and has a monetary policy strategy of targeting inflation in consumer … prices. In this paper, we look at the evidence from the UK on inflation behaviour, and examine the propositions from several … theoretical models about inflation dynamics in an open economy, focussing in particular on the hypothesised connections between …
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