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The Signaling Effect of Raising Inflation

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This paper argues that central bankers should temporarily raise inflation when anticipating liquidity traps to signal their credibility to forward guidance policies. As stable inflation in normal times either stems from central banker's credibility, e.g. through reputation, or from his aversion to inflation, the private sector is unable to infer the central banker's type from observing stable inflation, jeopardizing the efficiency of forward guidance policy. We show that this signaling motive can justify temporary deviations of inflation from target well above 2% but also that the low inflation volatility during the Great Moderation was insufficient to ensure fully efficient forward guidance when needed.
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hal-01985390 , version 1 (17-01-2019)

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Jean Barthélémy, Eric Mengus. The Signaling Effect of Raising Inflation. 2016. ⟨hal-01985390⟩
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