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by the announcement of inflation targeting in 1991 when estimating the effects of monetary policy. For instance, we find …
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current burst of inflation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the inflation that Americans experienced 100 years ago … announced aggressive plans to reduce its massive balance sheet. Expectations are that tightening will continue until inflation … between the 1919 Inflation and COVID-19 Inflation and attempt to time the market. This is a risky proposition for long …
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Firms’ market power, measured by markups, has risen substantially and unequally across sectors. To evaluate the implications of these trends for monetary non-neutrality, we develop a quantitative menu cost model that covers multiple sectors with heterogeneous degrees of market competition. Two...
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A vast empirical literature has documented delayed and persistent effects of monetary policy shocks on output. We show that this finding results from the aggregation of output impulse-responses that differ sharply depending on the timing of the shock: When the monetary policy shock takes place...
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This paper draws from Japan's recent monetary experiment to examine the effects of an increase in the inflation target … identified inflation target shock. We apply these findings to calibrate the effect of a shock to the inflation target in a new …-Keynesian DSGE model of the Japanese economy. We argue that imperfect observability of the inflation target and a separate exchange …
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This paper draws from Japan's recent monetary experiment to examine the effects of an increase in the inflation target … identified inflation target shock. We apply these findings to calibrate the effect of a shock to the inflation target in a new …-Keynesian DSGE model of the Japanese economy. We argue that imperfect observability of the inflation target and a separate exchange …
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We study the effects of monetary policy on economic activity separately identifying the effects of a conventional change in the fed funds rate from the policy of forward guidance. We use a structural VAR identified using external instruments from futures market data. The response of output to a...
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the UK economy. We find that a 1 percentage point increase in the policy rate reduces output by up to 0.6% and inflation …
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The secular decline in the equilibrium real interest rate observed over the past decades has materially limited the room for policy-rate reductions in recessions, and has led to a marked increase in the incidence of episodes where policy rates are likely to be at, or near, the effective lower...
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