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advanced economies and emerging markets to quantify the effects of fiscal tightening on inflation expectations. We find that … fiscal consolidation announcements reduce inflation expectations over the medium-term (three and five-years ahead), but not …" about expected future inflation at longer horizons. The inflation anchoring role of consolidation announcements is enhanced …
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identification via heteroskedasticity. We show that positive changes in interest rates cause inflation expectations to decline and … affects inflation expectations in an emerging economy using high frequency identification techniques …
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Central banks in major industrialized economies were slow to react to the surge in inflation that began in early 2021 … war in Ukraine. We investigate the consequences of policy delay in responding to inflation shocks. First, using a simple … three-period model, we show how policy delay worsens inflation outcomes, but can mitigate or even reverse the output decline …
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This paper studies how and why inflation expectations have changed since the emergence of Covid-19. Using micro …-year and five-ten year horizons has widened since the surge of inflation during 2021, along with the mean. Persistently high … adaptive learning is able to mimic the change in inflation expectations over time for different demographic groups. The …
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The consensus among central bankers is that higher inflation expectations can drive up inflation today, requiring … tighter policy. We assess this by devising a novel method for identifying shocks to inflation expectations, estimating a semi … data for the United States, we find that a positive inflation expectations shock is deflationary and contractionary …
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supply chain disruptions for inflation and monetary policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Increases in supply chain pressures have … had a sizeable impact on headline, food, and tradable inflation for a panel of 29 sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 … to 2022. Our findings suggest that central banks can stabilize inflation and output more efficiently by monitoring global …
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This paper analyzes the dramatic rise in U.S. inflation since 2020, which we decompose into a rise in core inflation as … measured by the weighted median inflation rate and deviations of headline inflation from core. We explain the rise in core with …-through into core from past shocks to headline inflation. The headline shocks themselves are explained largely by increases in …
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particular inflation. The paper's major finding is that there indeed is a negative relationship between central bank financial … strength and inflation outcomes. This relationship appears to be robust to the choice of alternative country samples, control …
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The financial health of central banks and its relation to policy outcomes has recently been recognized as an important policy issue. While case study evidence clearly indicates that weak central bank finances can hamper effective policy implementation, the question of whether central bank...
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This paper argues case that a tighter fiscal policy stance can meaningfully support central banks in fighting inflation … more effective than fiscal policy in battling inflation in open economies due to the exchange rate channel, we show that a …
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