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The three countries took different stances in regards to economic policy; the Czech Republic pursued a shock therapy regime which aimed to stabilise the economy, Hungary's policy was more relaxed whilst Poland had an aggressive reform programme. Regarding monetary policy the Czech Republic used...
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Operational monetary policy rules are characterized by a parsimonious specification and are therefore prone to specification error when estimated on real data. I devise a policy rule estimation procedure, which is robust to marginal misspecification, and study the effects of specification error...
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Policymakers do not always follow a simple rule for setting policy rates for various reasons and thus their choices are co-driven by a decision to follow a rule or not. Consequently, some observations are censored and cause bias in conventional estimators of typical Taylor rules. To account for...
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We investigate the heterogeneity in the effects of monetary policy shocks on the distribution of wages and hours worked, using unique contract-level data from the Czech labor market and identifying monetary policy shocks using a narrative approach based on market suprises in interest rate...
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This paper examines the moderation of inflation in three transition economies, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland … of inflation, we show that, under a variety of assumptions, foreign prices and the persistence of inflation were the key … determinants of inflation in these countries. From this finding we conclude that the moderation of inflation in the Czech Republic …
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Despite the significant academic interest in the economic cohesion, the various aspects of convergence and the ways they can be measured still remain theoretically unclear. These are issues of extreme political significance, especially for countries aspiring for EU and euro area membership. The...
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Policymakers do not always follow a simple rule for setting policy rates for various reasons and thus their choices are co-driven by a decision to follow a rule or not. Consequently, some observations are censored and cause bias in conventional estimators of typical Taylor rules. To account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604817
The aim of this study is to estimate the credibility of monetary policy in four accession countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Republic), based on the Markov regime-switching (MRS) framework. We utilize the theoretical proposition that in the conduct of monetary policy,...
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Inflation rates have traditionally been measured by the annualized percentage change in the price level of a market … and services. Therefore, different households experience different inflation rates. This paper finds that these … experienced an inflation rate that was similar to the national average. Furthermore, the higher the average inflation rate over …
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