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The flattening of the Phillips curve observed in the industrial countries has been attributed to globalisation, while the traditional explanation centres on monetary policy credibility. The empirical literature is not conclusive, since macroeconomic data are affected by substantial...
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The aim of the paper is to estimate a reliable quarterly time-series of potential output for the Italian economy, exploiting four alternative approaches: a Bayesian unobserved component method, a univariate time-varying autoregressive model, a production function approach and a structural VAR....
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Between 2013 and 2014, following the recession triggered by the sovereign debt crisis, euro-area inflation decreased …
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¿½ memory for cinema prices with questionnaires distributed to moviegoers. The analysis concentrates on the memory of pre-euro … respondents recalled the correct price, and that the average prices recalled were much lower than the actual pre-euro prices and …
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We test whether and how the adoption of the euro, narrowly defined as the end of competitive devaluations, has affected … the euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption … restructuring more since the adoption of the euro. Restructuring has entailed a shift of business focus from production to upstream …
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This study investigates inflation perceptions in both qualitative and quantitative terms and their relationship with factors likely to affect them. This has been done in a unified framework through a survey of a representative sample of Italian consumers carried out at the end of 2006. The...
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The introduction of the euro notes and coins in the first two months of 2002 was followed by a lively debate on the … alleged inflationary effects of the new currency. In Italy, as in the rest of the euro area, survey-based measures signaled a … hypothesis that, after the introduction of the euro notes and coins, consumer prices underwent an increase not recorded by …
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Following the introduction of euro banknotes and coins many Italians perceived a much sharper increase in the price …
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