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Optimal monetary policy maximizes the welfare of a representative agent, given frictions in the economic environment. Constructing a model with two broad sets of frictions — costly price adjustment by imperfectly competitive firms and costly exchange of ...
Alexander L. Wolman +2 more
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Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Monetary Policy Surprises [PDF]
Monetary policy uncertainty affects the transmission of monetary policy shocks to longer-term nominal and real yields. For a given monetary policy shock, the reaction of yields is more pronounced when the level of monetary policy uncertainty is low.
Michiel De Pooter +3 more
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Monetary Policy Uncertainty [PDF]
We construct new measures of uncertainty about Federal Reserve policy actions and their consequences - monetary policy uncertainty (MPU) indexes. We show that, under a variety of VAR identification schemes, positive shocks to uncertainty about monetary policy robustly raise credit spreads and reduce output.
Lucas Husted, John Rogers, Bo Sun
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The Companion lays out a comprehensive history of the field and, in five additional parts, it explores public choice contributions to the study of the origins of the state, the organization of political activity, the analysis of decision-making in non-market institutions, the examination of tribal governance and to modeling and predicting the behavior ...
Laurence Ball
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Measuring Monetary Policy [PDF]
Abstract: Extending the approach of Bernanke and Blinder (1992), Strongin (1992), and Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (1994a, 1994b), we develop and apply a VAR-based methodology for measuring the stance of monetary policy. More specifically, we develop a "semi-structural" VAR approach, which extracts information about monetary policy from data on ...
Bernanke, Ben S., Mihov, Ilian
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Perceptions about Monetary Policy
We estimate perceptions about the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy rule from panel data on professional forecasts of interest rates and macroeconomic conditions. The perceived dependence of the federal funds rate on economic conditions varies substantially over time, including over the monetary policy cycle.
Michael D. Bauer +2 more
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This study investigates the evolution of the import content of production and exports in Turkey for the 2002–2018 period. Based on 2002 and 2012 input-output tables and a large data set of production and foreign trade, we estimate the production and ...
Yasemin Erduman, Okan Eren, Selçuk Gül
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Forward-looking component in consumers’expectations and inflation forecast targeting: the case of six European economies [PDF]
Since there are different ways of revealing central banks’ intentions, a simple research question, which we address in this study, arises. Is the forward-looking (FL) component of consumers’ expectations related to the way in which the forecast is ...
Magdalena Szyszko , Aleksandra Rutkowska
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While corporate indebtedness has increased substantially in emerging countries over the last decade, the literature on the negative consequences of this large build-up of debt on real consequences is very limited.
İbrahim Yarba
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Sophisticated Monetary Policies [PDF]
In standard monetary policy approaches, interest-rate rules often produce indeterminacy. A sophisticated policy approach does not. Sophisticated policies depend on the history of private actions, government policies, and exogenous events and can differ on and off the equilibrium path.
Andrew Atkeson +2 more
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