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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU … is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices …
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Periods of high indebtedness have historically been associated with a rising incidence of default or restructuring of public and private debts. Sometimes the debt restructuring is more subtle and takes the form of 'financial repression'. Consistent negative real interest rates are equivalent to...
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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1935 and 2012 using a Phillips curve approach. We find that a … of diagnostic tests. We also consider the importance of UK and euro area inflation for Irish inflation. While UK … inflation is significant in the period 1935 – 1979, and euro area inflation is significant in the period 1980 – 2012, we present …
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Some channels through which increased inflation tends to reduce economic growth, and vice versa, are studied within a … potential impact of inflation on: (a) saving through real interest rates (or uncertainty); (b) the income velocity of money; (c …) the government budget deficit through the inflation tax and tax erosion; and (d) efficiency in production through the …
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model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …
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inflation at different time horizons or frequency bands. The ECB has publicly supported this understanding of the framework …. This paper presents further evidence on the behaviour of euro area inflation using band spectrum regressions, which allow … frequency domain. The main finding is that variations in inflation are well explained by low-frequency movements of money and …
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with targeting the rate of inflation. Critical advances in the measurement of inflation have proved decisive in bringing …
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We study firm-level pricing behavior through the lens of exchange rate pass-through and provide new evidence on how firm-level market shares and price complementarities affect pass-through decisions. Using micro-data from U.S. import prices, we identify two facts: First, exactly the firms that...
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Business cycle fluctuations in developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (i) endogenous...
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This paper argues that the stock market crash of 2008, triggered by a collapse in house prices, caused the Great Recession. The paper has three parts. First, it provides evidence of a high correlation between the value of the stock market and the unemployment rate in U.S. data since 1929....
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