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The volume collects the essays presented at the 15th Workshop on Public Finance organised by Banca d'Italia in Perugia from 4 to 6 April 2013. The workshop focused on the link between fiscal policy and macroeconomic imbalances and comprised four sessions. The first session concentrated on the...
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Since the adoption of flexible exchange rates, real exchange rates have been much more volatile than they were under Bretton Woods. However, the volatilities of most other macroeconomic variables have remained approximately unchanged. This poses a puzzle for standard international business cycle...
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In the past decade changes in oil prices have played a significant role in shaping inflation dynamics in the US and in …
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Price versus productivity indexing is considered in a model of monetary policy with wage bargaining. The wage-indexing rule is negotiated in a first stage of the game between government, union and firm.
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This paper proposes a monetary policy game based on a microfounded general equilibrium model. The approach allows some key features of the policy game to be related to basic technological and preference parameters. Moreover, it shows how results are affected by the presence of non-atomistic...
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The empirical literature on the transmission of monetary policy to inflation in Italy has stressed the importance of … the exchange rate and, to some extent, of the demand channel; recently, the roles of inflation expectations and the fiscal … situation have been emphasized. This paper uses vector auto-regression to address this issue. The results suggest that inflation …
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The paper analyzes the short-run impact of periods of strong monetary growth on inflation dynamics for 15 …
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level, after controlling for inflation expectations, and whether it is concentrated among those firms that are more exposed …
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promptly identifying turning points in inflation. The focus of this paper is the so-called "cost-of-living" index, the most … used measure of Italian inflation. Our aim is to identify and test a model of its seasonal component, which is important in …
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This study investigates inflation perceptions in both qualitative and quantitative terms and their relationship with … Italian consumers carried out at the end of 2006. The results show that reported inflation is, on average, much higher than … measured by official statistics. Inflation perceptions are higher for women, the unemployed and less educated individuals, as …
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