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This paper studies firms' price-setting decision during a currency changeover. Buyers' difficulties with the new nominal price level create incentives to raise prices temporarily but doing so comes at the risk of damaging a seller's reputation in the long run. We model firms' trade-off and study...
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assumption improves the fit of the inflation equation. Third, this assumption is necessary for getting an important reduction of …
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return on assets is determined by incentives eliciting voluntary debt repayment. I show that the inflation rate or, more …, money is used in equilibrium and the optimal inflation rate is positive. …
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This paper explores how different types of financial regulation could combat many of the phenomena that were observed in the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009. The primary contribution is the introduction of a model that includes both a banking system and a “shadow banking system” that each...
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monetary policy in the United States, in particular its interaction with the formation of inflation expectations and the … linkages between monetary policy, inflation expectations and the behaviour of CPI inflation. We use Livingston Survey data for … expected inflation, measured at a bi-annual frequency, actual inflation, unemployment and a nominal interest rate to estimate …
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sales; (iv) price changes related to sales and product replacements are less driven by inflation variations than regular … price changes; (v) the monthly inflation rate is correlated to the frequencies of price decreases and increases. The …
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The paper develops a model for forecasting inflation in France. As this model has to be integrated in the Eurosystem …
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This paper aims at evaluating the impact of globalization, if any, on inflation and the inflation process. We estimate … commodity import price inflation on CPI inflation depends on the volume of commodity imports while the impact of non …-commodity import price inflation is independent of the volume of non-commodity imports. Second, focusing on the role of intra …
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With the European economic integration, the understanding of inflation and inflationary pressures requires to analyse … both the national level and the whole Euro area level. This is true in particular for the inflation forecasts that are … forward a simple model of short-term developments (one year ahead) in inflation, as measured by the Harmonized Index of …
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