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, based on a panel of four biggest Central European countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) confirm …
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Policymakers do not always follow a simple rule for setting policy rates for various reasons and thus their choices are co-driven by a decision to follow a rule or not. Consequently, some observations are censored and cause bias in conventional estimators of typical Taylor rules. To account for...
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In view of the increasing use of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models in the macroeconomic projections and the policy process, this paper examines, both conceptually and empirically, alternative notions of potential output within DSGE models. Furthermore, it provides historical...
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effect. (2) Consumer prices appear more responsive to an interest rate shock during the first half of our sample, when Poland … experienced high inflation. The impact of an exchange rate shock on prices seems to slightly decrease across time …
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Policymakers do not always follow a simple rule for setting policy rates for various reasons and thus their choices are co-driven by a decision to follow a rule or not. Consequently, some observations are censored and cause bias in conventional estimators of typical Taylor rules. To account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604817
ingredient to model. In fact, I found that the estimated premium is a very powerful predictor of inflation. It overcomes, in …
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This paper presents evidence on the lag between monetary policy actions and the response of inflation in the euro area … monetary policy regime thereafter. Results based on alternative definitions of inflation persistence support these findings …, although, they suggest that at the country level, a drop in German inflation persistence and a sizeable shift in the mean of …
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creating inflation). Finally, I show that the highest welfare level is achieved when counterfeiting is costly, or when the …
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This paper compares the welfare implications of two widely used pricing assumptions in the New-Keynesian literature: Calvo-pricing vs. Rotemberg-pricing. We show that despite the strong similarities between the two assumptions to a first order of approximation, in general they might entail...
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synchronized within rather than across stores. Time variations in inflation can be attributed mainly to variations in the frequency …
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