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Does an inflation conservative central bank agrave; la Rogoff (1985) remain desirable in a setting with endogenous … spending. The optimal inflation rate internalizing this distortion is positive, but lack of monetary commitment robustly … generates too much inflation. A conservative monetary authority thus remains desirable. Exclusive focus on inflation by the …
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the role of monetary policy and macro-prudential regulation in promoting financial stability is under discussion. The old debate concerning whether monetary policy should respond to credit and asset price bubbles was revived, whereas macro-prudential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020791
We document that about 33% of the core inflation basket in the euro area is sensitive to monetary policy shocks. We …. Estimations over different samples show that the impact of monetary policy shocks on sensitive core inflation has become larger …
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margin at the expense of hiring, which makes hours too volatile. The Ramsey planner uses inflation as an instrument to dampen …
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We document three new empirical facts: (i) monetary policy shocks increase the markup dispersion across firms, (ii) they increase the relative markup of firms with stickier prices, and (iii) firms with stickier prices have higher markups. This is consistent with a New Keynesian model in which...
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international shock propagation for the euro area, the US, Japan, the UK, China, oil-exporting economies and the rest of the world …
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international shock propagation for the euro area, the US, Japan, the UK, China, oil-exporting economies and the rest of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667193
We document three new empirical facts: (i) monetary policy shocks increase the markup dispersion across firms, (ii) they increase the relative markup of firms with stickier prices, and (iii) firms with stickier prices have higher markups. This is consis- tent with a New Keynesian model in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422089
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the role of monetary policy and macro-prudential regulation in promoting financial stability is under discussion. The old debate concerning whether monetary policy should respond to credit and asset price bubbles was revived, whereas macro-prudential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605829
In this paper we analyse the interaction of fiscal rules and fiscal space. We find strong evidence for fiscal rules being associated with higher fiscal space. Furthermore, the analysis shows that countries with more fiscal space tend to have higher discretionary expenditures, but that this...
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