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The frequencies at which prices and wages are adjusted, interpreted as price and wage flexibility, are key elements in workhorse models used for policy analysis. Yet, there is little evidence regarding the relationship between these two sources of nominal rigidities. Using two large and highly...
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This paper studies the design of optimal time-consistent monetary policy in an economy where the planner trusts its own model, while a representative household uses a set of alternative probability distributions governing the evolution of the exogenous state of the economy. In such environments,...
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stability and instrument independence to achieve it. Advances in academic research supported a strong focus on price stability … "promote maximum employment in a context of price stability." Although the Fed has established credibility for the long …
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This study envisages analyzing the convergence criteria in the context of recent macroeconomic developments, focusing on their sustainability. In order to highlight the sustainability of convergence indicators, the paper includes an analysis of the initial dynamics, both in terms of nominal and...
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This paper studies the trade-offs that can arise between inflation targeting and financial stability objectives. We use … policy pursues traditional price stability objectives; (2) monetary policy leaning against the wind; and (3) a case of policy … stability objectives as an additional macroeconomic policy increases the volatility of inflation. We identify cases in which the …
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Would a more open and regular evaluation of the monetary policy framework improve policy in the United States? Even when considering a relatively short timeframe that spans the 1960s to the present, it is possible to point to many significant changes to the framework. Some of the changes were...
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reduces the return to innovation, thus reducing total factor productivity growth and generating a permanent loss in output …. Using a purely quadratic approximation to welfare under endogenous growth, we derive normative implications for monetary …
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We show that a monetary policy in which the central bank commits to a randomized inflation target allows for potentially faster-expectations convergence than with a fixed target. The randomized target achieves faster convergence in particular in transition environments: those demonstrating...
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approximate price stability rule. In addition to a standard first-order approximation to the equilibrium solution, this paper also …
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The global financial crisis of late 2008 could not have provided more convincing evidence that price stability is not a … sufficient condition for financial stability. In order to attain both, central banks must develop macroprudential instruments in …
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