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The Big Mac Index : A Shortcut to Inflation and Exchange Rate Dynamics? Price Tracking and Predictive Properties
San Vicente Portes, Luis - 2014
world due to arbitrage. The popularity and following of the Big Mac Index led us to the following two questions: 1) How … Economist and from the World Bank for 54 countries. The importance of these findings lie on the widespread use of the index and …The Economist magazine has been publishing the Big Mac Index using it as a rule of thumb to determine the over- or …
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The Big Mac Index and Real-Income Disparity
Atal, Vidya - 2014
The Big Mac Index was introduced to (semi-humorously) test the theory of purchasing power parity and measure the … disparity in currency values. Instead, in this paper, we consider this index to find out the per capita real-income disparity …
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Spatial chaining in international comparisons of prices and real incomes
Hajargasht, Reza; Hill, Robert J.; Prasada Rao, D. S.; … - 2018
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International comparisons of real military purchasing power : a global database
Robertson, Peter E. - 2019
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Space-time (in)consistency in the national accounts : causes and cures
Oulton, Nicholas - 2015
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Are hamburgers harmless? : the Big Mac Index in the twenty-first century
Soo, Kwok Tong - 2016
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"Big Mac real" income inequality : a multinational study
Gharehgozli, Orkideh; Atal, Vidya - 2019
Using the Big Mac Index, we offer a simple approach to study the real income inequality. We provide a multidimensional …
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"Big Mac affordability" and real income inequality across countries
Gharehgozli, Orkideh; Atal, Vidya - 2019
Using the Big Mac Index and focusing on the deciles of the income distribution, we produce a descriptive study of real …
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Carry funding and safe haven currencies : a threshold regression approach
Hossfeld, Oliver; MacDonald, Ronald - 2014
In this paper, we analyze which currencies can be regarded as safe haven currencies. Our empirical approach allows us to distinguish between a low- and high stress regime, and to control for the impact of carry trade reversals and other fundamental determinants. We therefore address the question...
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The Generalized Unit Value Index
Auer, Ludwig von - 2011
The inflation rate is normally computed as a weighted average of individual price changes. Alternatively, this rate could be evaluated by comparing average price levels. Unfortunately, this methodology has received limited attention in past research. This study attempts to remedy this situation...
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