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regime. Notably, the estimate of the inflation coefficient satisfies the Taylor principle in both regimes. These results are …
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gap coefficient is higher in the recessionary regime than in the normal one. The estimate of the inflation coefficient …
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marketoperations. The relationship between the policy rate,expected inflation and consumption growth is affected bymoney market …
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, the money growth rate should not rise by more than one for one with inflation when the primary surplus is raised with … inflation - to ensure local equilibrium determinacy. When the central bank links the supply of money to government bonds by … controlling the bond-to-money ratio, an inflation stabilizing policy can be implemented for both fiscal policy regimes. Local …
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Since dollarized countries import US monetary policy, identifying US monetary shocks through sign restrictions on US variables only, does not use all available information. In this paper, we therefore include dollarized countries, which enable us to restrict more variables and leave the...
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This paper employs Vector Autoregression (VAR) models to measure the impact of monetary policy shocks on regional output in Indonesia. Having incorporated a possible structural break following the aftermath of the 1997-98 Asian Crisis, the impulse response functions derived from the estimated...
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We investigate the implications for the setting of interest rateswhen monetary policy decisions are taken by a committee, in whicha subset of members may meet prior to the voting in the committeeand therefore has the possibility to reach consensus ex ante to voteunanimously ex post. We allow for...
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Proponents of the so-called New Economy claim that it entails a structural change of the economy. Such a change, in turn, would require the central bank to rethink its monetary policy to the extent that traditional relationships between inf1ation and economic growth are no longer valid. But such...
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We develop a theoretical framework for studying the effects of interaction on the quaJity of decision-making by monetary policy committees. We show that interaction, i.e. increasing one's expertise through an exchange of views, is most likely not to result in interdependent voting...
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This paper examines which macroeconomic and financial variables are most informative for the federal funds target rate decisions made by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) from a forecasting perspective. The analysis is conducted for the FOMC decision during the period January 1990 - June...
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