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U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation …
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Earlier studies of the seigniorage inflation model have found that the high-inflation steady state is not stable under … on stationary hyperinflationary paths near the high-inflation steady state. The hyperinflationary paths are stable under …
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As inflation rates in the United States decline, analysts are asking if there are economic reasons to hold the rates at … levels above zero. Previous studies of whether inflation greases the wheels of the labor market ignore inflation's potential … allows the benefits of inflation (downward wage flexibility) to be separated from disruptive uncertainty about inflation rate …
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interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …
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interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007633
Earlier studies of the seigniorage inflation model have found that the high-inflation steady state is not stable under … on stationary hyperinflationary paths near the high-inflation steady state. The hyperinflationary paths are stable under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005120784
We study adaptive learning in a monetary overlapping generations model with sticky prices and monopolistic competition for the case where learning agents observe current endogenous variables. Observability of current variables is essential for informational consistency of the learning setup with...
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Inflation differentials in the euro area have been persistent since the adoption of the single currency. This paper … analyzes the impact of product and labor market regulation on inflation in a sample of 11 countries. The results show that …, after the adoption of the euro, product market deregulation has a relevant and significant effect on the level of inflation …
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We study optimal nominal demand policy in an economy with monopolistic competition and flexible prices when firms have imperfect common knowledge about the shocks hitting the economy. Parametrizing firms' information imperfections by a (Shannon) capacity parameter that constrains the amount of...
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I evaluate the effect of inflation targeting on inflation and how it interacts with product market deregulation during … market deregulation, the effect of inflation targeting is quantitatively important and statistically significant. Moreover …, product market deregulation also matters in particular in countries that adopted an inflation targeting regime. I propose a …
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