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ECB paper finds strong policy can stop expectations de-anchoring

Communicating counterfactual scenarios can help to inform monetary policy decisions

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A forceful response to external shocks can prevent medium-term inflation expectations from de-anchoring, a new paper from the European Central Bank shows.

The study, published on July 29, develops a “regime-switching dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model” in which prolonged periods of a central bank “looking through” an external shock lead to de-anchored medium-term inflation expectations.

The authors, ECB economists Kai Christoffel and Mátyás Farkas, say that although looking through the

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