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Nonfarm Employment, Inflationary Expectations, and Monetary Policy after the Global Financial Crisis

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Unemployment has tumbled since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). This paper investigates whether news of a tightening labor market since the GFC has generated expectations of an overheating economy or excessive Fed tightening. Evidence from the response of interest rates, exchange rates, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and other assets indicates that investors did not expect a strong labor market to produce inflation. Neither did they expect the Fed to overreact and derail growth. The Fed has thus succeeded so far in navigating between the shoals of overheating and premature tightening.

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  • Willem THORBECKE, 2018. "Nonfarm Employment, Inflationary Expectations, and Monetary Policy after the Global Financial Crisis," Discussion papers 18076, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
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