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are affected by the undershooting of the euro area inflation target. To shed light on this issue, we estimate an open …-economy, New Keynsian Phillips curve, in which we control for imported inflation. Regression results suggest that falling food and … energy prices have been the main disinflationary driver. But low core inflation in the euro area has also had a clear and …
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The recent global financial crisis illustrates that financial frictions are a significant source of volatility in the economy. This paper investigates monetary policy stabilization in an environment where financial frictions are a relevant source of macroeconomic fluctuation. We derive a measure...
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agricultural sector and food prices in the inflation process; features of monetary policy transmission and implications of an …
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India formally adopted flexible inflation targeting (FIT) in June 2016 to place price stability, defined in terms of a … target CPI inflation, as the primary objective of monetary policy. In this context, the paper draws on Indian macroeconomic …
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Many observers argue that the world has changed after the latest financial crisis. If that is the case, monetary policy and the process informing it will have to be reconsidered and 'learned' anew by all stakeholders. Perhaps, a new Taylor rule will emerge. A 'Taylor rule' is predicated upon two...
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-looking specifications, especially when targeting core components of GDP and inflation, and combine the best parts of efficiency and …
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This paper proposes a new method of estimating the Taylor rule with a time-varying implicit inflation target and a time …-varying natural rate of interest. The inflation target and the natural rate are modeled as random walks and are estimated using …
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High and volatile inflation has been an endemic economic and social issue in Iran that has contributed to rising … poverty and social tensions. For policymakers to effectively address the inflation problem, it is critical to understand its … long-term determinants of inflation in Iran over the past two decades and identify policy options to curb it. Using …
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In this paper, we examine how economic shocks affect the distribution of household inflation expectations. We show that … the dynamics of households' expected inflation distributions are driven by three distinctive functional shocks, which … influence the expected inflation distribution through disagreement, level shift and ambiguity. Linking these functional shocks …
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Inflation and unemployment rate were largely disconnected between 2000 and 2019 in advanced economies. We decompose … core inflation into two parts based on the cyclical sensitivity of CPI components and document several salient facts: (i … inflation and unemployment rate. The approach has potential to help understand forces shaping price pressures during the …
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