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, the movements in the price of gold seem to lead a symmetrical trend in the headline inflation since the outbreak of the …, shifts in the gold price should be monitored as one of the determining factors of inflation. Yet, hardly any study has …-digit inflation rates. …
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In an economy undergoing structural reforms the composition of savings goes through considerable change. It is important to understand such changes both for increasing the volume of aggregate savings (to garner resources for higher economic growth) as well as affecting their composition (towards...
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This paper attempts to take a meticulous look on stability of money demand in India Using annual data for period 1953-2007 and the Hansen (1992) and Gregory Hansen (1996) co-integration approaches with structural break. Results of the Gregory Hansen (1996) cointegration analysis show the...
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This paper presents the novel implications of introducing price rigidities into a model of good-specific habit formation, for the response of private consumption following a positive government spending shock. With ’deep’ habits in demand, the price elasticity of demand rises after the...
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A puzzle from the Great Recession is an apparent mismatch between a fall in the persistence of European inflation rates …, and the increased variability of expert forecasts of inflation. We explain this puzzle and show how country specific … beliefs about inflation are still quite close to the European Central Bank target of 2% (what we call official target …
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This article examines the performance of inflation targeters during the 2007-2012 downturn compared to those without … successful policy results in higher inflation and output growth, lower unemployment, and a better fiscal position. The analysis … is conducted separately for developed and emerging countries. Inflation targeting tends to insulate developed countries …
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We examine the effect of inflation variability and economic growth using annual historical data on both developing and … inflation variability by the five-year coefficient of variation of inflation, we obtain the following results: (1) For … developing countries, there is significant evidence to suggest that when the rate of inflation exceeds 10 percent inflation …
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This paper extends the New Keynesian Phillips curve model to include inflation volatility and tests the determinants of … such volatility for India. It provides results on the determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation … volatility for OLS and ARDL (1,1) models and for change in inflation volatility and change in expected inflation volatility using …
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This paper amends the New Keynesian Phillips curve model to include inflation volatility. It provides results on the … determinants of inflation volatility and expected inflation volatility for OLS and ARDL(1,1) models and for change in inflation … volatility and change in expected inflation volatility using ECM models. Output gap affects change in expected inflation …
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price changes? To examine this question we decompose CPI inflation and "core" inflation into their permanent and transitory … to offsetting transitory shocks correlated with the permanent shocks. The stationarity of inflation may be time …-varying, so we examine the performance of the core measure of inflation for periods during which it appears that inflation is I(1 …
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