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This paper studies drivers of high-frequency (daily) dynamics of the South African rand vis-à-vis the dollar from January 2001 to July 2007. We find strong nonlinear effects of commodity prices, perceived country and emerging market risk premium and changes in the dollar-euro exchange rate on...
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High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country where high unemployment exists despite the near complete absence of an unemployment insurance system....
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compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of … the crisis, predicting a decade of stagnation for the south and inflation for the north. Keynesian demand policy is …
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repression in domestic interest rates—to avoid an avalanche of foreign capital inflows that would threaten inflation and asset …
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import prices only to a small extent, it may have a substantial impact on inflation, as it exerts a sizeable impact on the …
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economy. While about half of all studies for the United States find a significant effect of unemployment and inflation on … choice of the sample period is of crucial importance. While in the very long run we find unemployment, inflation and the …
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The sovereign debt crisis has made it clear that central banking is more than keeping inflation low. Central banks are …
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This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after …
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economic reform, economic growth and, with a delay, on investment and institutional change. Episode of high inflation, moreover …, translate into lower subsequent inflation. Crises thus appear to serve as catalysts of reform and institutional change and lead …
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contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high … incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their income, and latter seek to reduce it. The greater the inflation rate …, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a significant …
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