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different policy rules, we test whether the central bank in Russia reacts to changes in inflation, output gap and the exchange …
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This paper takes a first step in analysing how a monetary union performs in the presence of labour market asymmetries. Differences in wage flexibility, market power and country sizes are allowed for in a setting with both country-specific and aggregate shocks. The implications of asymmetries for...
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A small expectations-expanded "Mundell-Fleming" model is built for the European Union Accession Countries and estimated to assess the optimality of different exchange rate regimes (a peg and a float) through a simple welfare function. Floating appears as the best option for most of the countries...
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with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the … interest rate bound, interest rates and monetary aggregates provided a misleading indicator as to the true stance of inflation …
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This paper reviews the usefulness of monetary conditions in the euro area as leading indicators for aggregate demand conditions. Monetary conditions are measured with the MCI concept proposed by the Bank of Canada, and with the yield spread. A central result is that causality runs in both ways...
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flexible exchange rate regimes. Therefore, this paper determines what the alternative strategies inflation targeting, Taylor …
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Conjectures about inflation expectations are inextricably linked to our understanding of the relationship between the … therefore examines the empirical properties of inflation expectations data constructed on the basis of both qualitative and … provides some insights into the nature of the interaction between monetary policy and inflation expectations. …
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We study the long-run relation between money, measured by inflation or interest rates, and unemployment. We first … macro and monetary economics, and providing a unified theory to analyze labor and goods markets. We calibrate the model, to …
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that this is sufficient to increase both, output and inflation persistence …
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implications for monetary policy as the central bank has to decide which inflation rate to target. Our results demonstrate that …
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