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persistence. This view is questioned in the paper using German data on unemployment. A new class of time-series models, the …
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Using multivariate unit root test methods, this Paper investigates the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis at the sectoral level across six European countries over the last seventeen years. Evidence of mean reversion toward PPP is found for the relative prices of some sectors and countries....
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framework for our model, including model identification, model estimation and selection, bias correction, model diagnostic check … asset prices, such as short-term persistence and volatility clustering of unconditional returns. …
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The half-life of deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) plays a central role in the ongoing debate about the ability of macroeconomic models to account for the time series behaviour of the real exchange rate. The main contribution of this paper is a general framework in which alternative...
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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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