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investment task. Moreover, emotions were explicitly measured, including anticipatory emotions experienced during the waiting … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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be held constant in the face of a domestic inflation. In this circumstance, import duties and export subsidies would have … in line with domestic inflation. Unless such a passive policy is accompanied by the elimination of trade barriers …
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much sharper rise in inflation than measured by the official price indices, whose quality was called into question. In this … determinants. Since these data do not rely on official inflation statistics, they provide an independent check for the latter. We … not recorded by official inflation statistics. We do not find evidence in support of this hypothesis. …
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This paper assembles an original panel of data from 2,500 restaurants in Italy over the 1998-2004 period. The main objective is to study whether the euro cash changeover had an impact on individual pricing behaviour, as it seems to be perceived by consumers. Although the sample is not...
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government to maintain a socially efficient policy of zero inflation for most of the game, without any formal precommitment … supports the results of Backus and Driffill and of Barro, in that the uncertainty induces low or zero inflation outcomes in the …
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expected means of future interest rates, exchange rates and inflation. More recently, these methods have been refined to rely …
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producers. I apply these results to a model of inflation. I find that the model can fit the quantitative facts on post …-war inflation remarkably well, that it is a good forecaster of future inflation, and that it survives the Lucas critique by fitting … also the pre-war facts on inflation moderately well. …
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from disturbances to the money market, the variance of output is shown to be an increasing function of the trend inflation … inflation rate. When both disturbances are significant, there exists, in general, a critical non-zero trend inflation rate that …
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If a consumer wishes to protect her retirement account from the risk of price changes in order to sustain a stable standard of living, then what price index should the account be indexed to? This paper constructs a dynamic price index (DPI) that answers this question. Unlike the existing theory...
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, control of inflation and control over the growth of national wealth, and a third outcome of importance, a high level of …). The assignment problem considers whether fiscal policy should be used to control inflation, leaving monetary policy to …
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