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inflation are co-breaking. We argue that the step-like development of inflation is in line with shocks and monetary policy that …% inflation was accomplished by introducing an inflation targeting regime. …
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Inflation expectations are a key determinant of actual and future inflation and thus matter for the conduct of monetary … policy. We study how firms form their inflation expectations using quarterly firm-level data from the Bank of Canada …'s Business Outlook Survey, spanning the 2001 to 2015 period. The data are aggregated to construct an inflation expectations index …
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We analyze the impact of price stability-oriented monetary strategies (inflation targeting — IT — and constraining … exchange rate arrangements) on inflation persistence using a time-varying coefficients framework in a panel of 68 countries … (1993–2013). We show that explicit IT has a stronger effect on taming inflation persistence than implicit IT and is …
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We construct an empirical test of whether the anticipation of adoption of inflation targeting affects the inflation … rate. We observe that most of the central banks adopt the regime after first achieving significant disinflation. With pre-inflation …-in-difference framework. We find that inflation targeting is successful in locking-in already low inflation rather than reducing high …
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After the introduction of a stabilization program Israeli inflation decreased from 400% in 1985 to 2% in 2013. This … process is defined by three clear steps of high, medium and low inflation. The break dates are in line with major economic …
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We analyze the impact of price stability-oriented monetary strategies (inflation targeting - IT - and constraining … exchange rate arrangements) on inflation persistence using a time-varying coefficients framework in a panel of 68 countries … (1993-2013). We show that explicit IT has a stronger effect on taming inflation persistence than implicit IT and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597229
consistent with the official monetary policy. Second, we seek to shed light on the inflation process of these countries. To this … end, we carry out an estimation of an open economy Philips curve (PC). Our main finding is that inflation rates were not … monetary arrangements for price stability. The analysis of the conditional inflation variance obtained from GARCH estimation of …
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inflation, we examine models of inflation that do and do not use the output gap. The Phillips curve, which relates inflation to … real activity, is regarded as the maintained theory of inflation. Models of inflation without the output gap include the … paper examines ten different models of inflation and estimates sixty-seven different specifications, some of which …
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between inflation and aggregate output. This study endeavors to advance previous studies in three ways. First, the literature …. These include the stock (and flow) of government debt, the issuance of inflation-indexed bonds, and the existence of … explicit inflation targets. Second, previous studies unfortunately exclude non-OECD countries. Third, the literature is divided …
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Many central banks worldwide announce numerical inflation targets, typically ranging from zero to two percent in … advanced economies and higher in developing countries. Historically, a significant gap existed between the inflation targets … for zero or negative inflation targets and surveys new forces justifying positive targets. Key factors include (i) trends …
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