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Inflation in advanced economies is low by historical standards but there is no threat of deflation. Slower economic … growth is caused by supply-side constraints rather than low inflation. Below-the-target inflation does not damage the … reputation of central banks. Thus, central banks should not try to bring inflation back to the targeted level of 2%. Rather, they …
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The objective of this paper was to analyse the relationship between inflation and economic growth in Burundi and to … determine whether there is an inflation threshold or not to allow monetary authority to adopt the optimal policies to deal with … between inflation and economic growth. The results showed a negative and significant relationship in the short run between …
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The long-run relation between growth and inflation has not yet been studied in the context of nominal price and wage … integrate staggered price- and wage-setting into an endogenous growth framework. In this setting, growth and inflation are … linked via the incentive to innovate. For standard calibrations, the linkage is strong: as trend inflation shifts from -5 to …
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Models of inflation and growth in the sixties emphasized the portfolio substitution mechanism by which higher inflation … to higher growth.The empirical evidence, however, is that growth and inflation are negatively correlated. Reasons for … this negative correlation are investigated, and then embodied in a simple monetary maximizing model. Higher inflation is …
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This paper examines the possibility of nonlinear effects of inflation on economic growth. It finds evidence of a … significant structural break in the function that relates economic growth to inflation. The break is estimated to occur when the … inflation rate is 8 percent. Below that rate, inflation does not have any effect on growth, or it may even have a slightly …
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