Anatomy of canadian inflation: An analysis with CANDIDE model 2.0

The objective of this paper is to analyze the causes of inflation projected for Canada through out the 1980s, using CANDIDE Model 2.0 as reported in the 18th Annual Review base case. Our analysis suggests that, in the medium-run inflation is not only a monetary phenomenon but also caused by a host of other factors: external inflation, foreign interest rates, low productivity growth, labour market tightness, domestic energy pricing and indexation of wages to CPI, a measure of inflation that reflects both domestic and foreign price pressures. Our results indicate that the restrictive aggregate damand policies alone will not make a significant dent in inflation without incurring substantial loss in output and employment. Our analysis suggests that we might better fight inflation using a balanced mix of aggregate demand and supply management policies and incentive based income policies.     

Term structure and forward guidance as instruments of monetary policy

This paper studies a simple monetary model with a Ricardian fiscal policy in which equilibria are indeterminate if monetary policy consists solely of a rule for fixing the short-term interest rate. We introduce explicitly into the model the agents’ expectations of inflation which create the indeterminacy and show that there are two types of policies—a term structure rule or a forward guidance rule for the short rate—which lead to determinacy. The first consists in fixing the interest rates on a family of bonds of different maturities as function of realized inflation; the second consists in fixing the short-term interest rate and the expected values of the short-term interest rate for a sequence of periods into the future as a function of realized inflation. If the monetary authority chooses an inflation process that satisfies conditions derived in the paper and applies one of these rules, it anchors agents’ expectations to this process, in the sense that it is the unique inflation process compatible with equilibrium when the interest rates or expected future values of the short rate are those specified by the term structure or forward guidance rule.     

中小企业政策发展与中小企业成长的相关性研究——以浙江省为例

中小企业在国民经济发展中不仅发挥着增加就业、培养企业家、活跃经济、为大企业配套、增加市场竞争性的作用,科技型中小企业更是技术创新的活跃成分和主力。通过选择浙江省中小企业政策为研究对象,运用统计分析的方法,探讨了中小企业政策的发展及不同类型的政策与中小企业成长的相关性问题,并提出相应的对策。     

我国通货膨胀与通货紧缩的非线性转换

本文应用ESTAR模型对我国通胀的非线性调节和通胀与通缩的非线性转换进行实证研究,研究结果表明我国通货膨胀具有显著的非线性调节,通胀与通缩的转换具有显著的非线性指数转换的特征,这种转换发生在滞后二期,转换的速度显著;我国通胀具有整体稳定性和局部非稳定性,由于我国通胀与通缩的临界水平c为3.3个百分点,表明我国通胀在3%左右的水平上处于非稳定运行状态;进一步,本文所估计的指数转换函数和c,基本准确地揭示了我国通胀的动态随机周期行为特征。本文的结论表明我国货币政策具有总体有效性和相机适宜性。     

Can Supply‐Side Policies Reduce Unemployment? Lessons from North America

North America offers lessons about policies that help sustain low unemployment. This article examines the effects of 'supply-side' policies, which boost the skills of the workforce and improve microeconomic incentives facing workers and employers.
Two supply-side policies were expanded after the mid-1980s. First, the United States increased earnings supplements, payable to low-income workers, to encourage adults to find and keep jobs. Second, social assistance programs limited the duration of transfer payments and linked support benefits to workers' participation in job search, occupational training, and community work experience programs. These measures increased job holding among economically disadvantaged adults. In the 1980s and 1990s the United States also maintained strong incentives for employers to create jobs for the hard-to-employ. Payroll tax and regulatory burdens on employers were kept low, and the modest legal minimum wage was allowed to fall in real terms. US experience suggests that selective supply-side policies can boost the employment rates of the hard-to-employ and help maintain a low rate of structural unemployment.     

Neo-liberalism and New Labour policy: economic performance, historical comparisons and future prospects

The paper analyses19760/70s inflation, the replacement of Keynesianwith neo-liberal economic policy, and the post-1979 declinein inflation. It is shown that the fall in inflation is explainedby trends in import prices rather than by switches in economicpolicy. However, New Labour's conversion to neo-liberalism meansthat no alternative to it is on political offer, despite returnsto pre-Keynesian policy-making, the success of which will dependon price policies based on an understanding of the institutionalroots of inflation.     

通货膨胀目标制实践经验的国际考察

作为一种新型的货币政策制度框架,标准型通货膨胀目标制在全球的中央银行中已经获得了一定的认同.然而迄今为止,我们还缺乏一个对目前大量的通货膨胀目标制实践经验进行简洁而全面的概括,借以对货币政策的实践和通货膨胀目标钉住者的前景展望提供相应指南.而这种指南之所以必要,是因为队伍不断庞大的发展中国家和新兴市场经济体正在考虑是否采纳通货膨胀目标制.借鉴标准型通货膨胀目标制国家在控制通货膨胀过程中所积累的经验,探讨通货膨胀目标制国家面临的主要问题、发展趋势、政策实践,其目的是为了从国家的角度来思考是否应该采纳通货膨胀目标制;而对于已经实施通货膨胀目标制的国家,则要考虑如何健全这一制度框架.     

货币政策工具对资产价格动态冲击的识别检验

文章以不同的货币政策手段在资产价格波动的不同阶段所表现出的作用效果为出发点,通过SVAR模型,识别出不同货币政策工具的单独动态冲击,并分别分析了膨胀阶段和低迷阶段的资产价格对货币政策冲击响应的程度,以解决针对不同阶段资产价格波动的货币政策调控手段和时机的选择问题。结果表明,货币政策对资产价格的作用具有有效性,在价格膨胀阶段可在一定时期内采取利率手段对资产价格波动进行微调,当出现价格泡沫时控制货币供应量会收到即时效果;而在资产价格低迷阶段,以利率调节资产价格具有明显和相对持久的作用。     

The Effectiveness of Incomes Policies, in Australia Bargaining and Inflation Targetting Enterprise

This paper updates earlier estimates that show the existence of a range of equilibrium rates of unemployment in Australia. Within the range of equilibria framework, the paper goes on to test the effectiveness of incomes policies, enterprise bargaining and inflation-target based monetary policy for influencing the rate of inflation in Australia in the period 1965 to 2001. Incomes policies, especially the Accord, and enterprise bargaining are shown to have caused permanent reductions in the rate of inflation. The inflation-target based monetary policy is shown to be associated with, but is not shown to have caused, a reduced impact on inflation of changes in the level of activity.     

Inflation expectations of Brazilian consumers: an analysis based on the FGV survey

ABSTRACT

An accurate assessment of inflation expectations is crucial for the management of monetary policies. However, expectations are not directly observed and are hence normally inferred either from the interest rate structure or from surveys of professional forecasters. Alternatively, a direct measure may be obtained from consumer surveys. The aim of this paper is to study the formation of inflation expectations in Brazil, using a novel dataset based on the FGV/IBRE consumer survey. Basing our model on the rational inattention hypothesis, we find that individual heterogeneity plays a very significant role in shaping individual expectations; also, Brazilians adjust expectations to current inflation and to a fixed reference value, while professional forecasts do not play a very relevant role.     

论中小企业的优势及我国发挥其的意义

中小企业之所以受到越来越多国家的高度重视和大力扶植 ,是因为它具有与其地位相适应的诸多优势 ,并在当代经济进程中弥补了大企业的不足。本文着重论述了中小企业与大企业相比在适应市场、满足需求、技术创新、抵御风险、创造就业等方面的优势。同时阐明了我国大力发展中小企业 ,充分发挥中小企业优势的重大意义。     

Policy Issues of China's Urban Unemployment

This article investigates causes and characteristics of urban layoff and unemployment. Chinese statistics show that the worsening urban unemployment problem is mainly caused by China's institutional changes, sectoral shifts, and cyclical fluctuations. Workers who are middle-aged, less educated, and female have experienced a higher risk of being laid off and unemployed. This article also discusses policy issues of China's urban layoff and unemployment. Supply-side policies include those that expand education, establish job-training programs, limit massive rural–urban migration in the short run, and rationalize labor force participation rate. Demand-side policies aim to create jobs, including policies such as promoting the service industry, attracting foreign investment, and developing the nonstate economy.     

当前中国通货膨胀压力成因与治理——外汇储备和产能角度下的分析

由于治理全球金融危机的扩张性政策刺激,中国的宏观经济形势自2009年11月开始由通货紧缩向通货膨胀转变。原材料价格、农产品价格、股价、房价急速上扬,这些使人明显地感受到前段时间的经济衰退正在演变成资产经济泡沫和通货膨胀。在这种背景下,本文回顾中国经济理论界对通货膨胀的研究,探讨当前外汇储备过高和产能严重过剩形成通货膨胀压力的机制。最后,就如何缓解当前的通货膨胀压力提出了初步建议。     

On the Effects of Inflation Shocks in a Small Open Economy

The effects of monetary policies remain always an important topic in macroeconomics. In the literature (closed and open economy), there is no theoretical as well as empirical consensus regarding the effects of monetary policies. In this paper we examine the real effects of inflation in an open economy. Australia is a classic example of a small open economy and is known to exercise inflation targeting. Using quarterly data from Australia and employing vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis, we provide evidence that inflation, both in the short and long run, negatively affects durable and non‐durable consumption and investment, and has a positive effect on the current account. Further, we show that consumption of durable goods is more sensitive than the consumption of non‐durables during the initial periods following inflationary shocks.     

中国核心通货膨胀的估计——基于贝叶斯Gibbs Sampler状态空间模型

观测到的通货膨胀可以分解为趋势成分和暂时成分,其中的趋势成分即核心通货膨胀。准确度量核心通货膨胀对宏观经济政策的制定和经济形势的判断有重要意义。本文首先建立了估计核心通货膨胀的状态空间模型,然后将贝叶斯Gibbs Sampler方法应用于估计该状态空间模型的参数,以克服卡尔曼滤波的缺陷。本文估计了1991-2010年的核心CPI,结果表明估计的核心CPI很好地反映了货币政策的变化,同CPI相比,核心CPI有较小的波动性并且与货币供给增长率具有更强的相关性。由此得出结论,当前只要食品价格不出现持续的大幅上涨,同时继续保持稳健的货币政策,中国就不会出现严重的通货膨胀,即使个别食品价格上涨造成CPI上涨也必然是不可持续的。     

The UK's monetarist experiment, 1979–1984

The paper provides an evaluation of the ‘monetarist experiment’ in the United Kingdom over the period 1979–1984. In the first half of the paper the distinctive character of the policies pursued in this period is outlined. In the second half, an econometric model, that of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (version 7) is used to calculate the contribution of the policies and of the parallel world recession to the domestic recession and to the fall in inflation. The results, which are comparable with those reported in earlier studies, suggest that fiscal and monetary policy was responsible for about a third of the recession, more than can be attributed to the world recession. Comparatively little of the decline in inflation in this period is attributable to policy.     

The nonneutrality of money and employment rates: Tobin and taxation effects

This paper demonstrates sufficient conditions for a system of income taxation to create a negative relationship between the steady-state rates of fully anticipated inflation and employment. The model examined is an extension of the one developed by Fischer (1979) to demonstrate the nonneutrality of money in an economy where inflation is accurately anticipated in the long-run equilibrium.     

汇率影响、货币供给与通货膨胀

本文从人民银行近期政策与通货膨胀的现实意义出发,回顾了理论界有关通货膨胀主要成因的观点,并指出输入型通胀、需求拉动型通胀和成本推动型通胀是国内学者普遍认为当下通货膨胀压力的主要成因。根据经典理论分析,我国当下的通货膨胀压力是人民币汇率制度导致我国基础货币被动增发以及扩张性货币政策指导下超量货币供给所带来的流动性过剩问题。     

An empirical evaluation of China’s monetary policies

This paper investigates the responsiveness of the Chinese government’s monetary policies in terms of the money supply and interest rates to economic conditions and the effectiveness of these policies in achieving the goals of stimulating economic growth and controlling inflation. We analyze the responsiveness and effectiveness by estimating the Taylor rule, the McCallum rule, and a vector autoregressive model using quarterly data in the period of 1992-2009. The results show that, overall, the monetary policy variables respond to economic growth and the inflation rate, but the magnitudes of the responses are much weaker than those observed in market economies. Money supply responded actively to both the inflation rate and the real output and had certain effects on the future inflation rates and real output. The official interest rates, on the other hand, responded passively to the inflation rate and did not respond to the real output. They do not have any effect on future inflation rates and real output either.