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We examine the properties of house price fluctuations across 18 advanced economies over the past 40 years. We ask two specific questions: First, how synchronized are housing cycles across these countries? Second, what are the main shocks driving movements in global house prices? To address these...
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high degree of exchange rate pass-through to headline inflation and the weak monetary transmission mechanism in PICs … suggest a greater efficacy of exchange rate changes in affecting inflation rather than monetary policy. To assess the tradeoff … rate changes and headline inflation and the low interest rate sensitivity of aggregate demand. …
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business cycle variance and about 25 percent of the variance of inflation. …
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inflation targeting regimes. This paper finds that the interest-rate transmission mechanism, or the pass-through of the policy …
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In recent years, the decline in inflation in Angola has stalled and further steps may be needed to attain the … digit inflation rate. A Vector Error Correction (VEC) model, which analyzes the factors that affect the inflationary process … in Angola, suggests that the inflation path has been largely affected by exchange rate movements. This implies that …
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In the near future, Romania will introduce inflation targeting and fully liberalize its capital account. This paper … central bank loss function containing the deviations of inflation, output, and the real exchange rate from their equilibrium …
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with different degrees of liability dollarization. The paper answers the question of how efficient it is to use inflation …
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for Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey reveal such responses, both contemporaneously and over time. Capital account shocks are … further shown to affect output growth and inflation. The nature and magnitude of these effects may depend on the exchange rate …
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This paper studies the impact effect of monetary policy shocks—identified by the reaction of three month market interest rates to policy announcements—on the exchange rate in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand during the 1990s. The main results are that (1) on average, a 100 basis point...
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considers inflation targeting in a small open economy. This economy is characterized by imperfect competition and short … inflation targeting on output and inflation volatility depend crucially on the exchange rate regime and the inflation index … nominal shocks the reverse is true. Second, domestically generated inflation targeting is preferable to CPI inflation …
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