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A large literature in macroeconomics assumes a social objective function, W(pi,U), where inflation, pi, and … dollar value of a low inflation rate. It also examines the struture of happiness equations across countries and time. …
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UK inflation varied greatly over 1865-1990, in response to many policy and exchange-rate regimes, two world wars and … each of these. Variables representative of most theories of inflation mattered empirically over the sample, yielding an …
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Data from two different primary sources were used to construct indices of house prices (HPI) and rents (RRPI) of residential property located in London and the Home Counties between 1895 and 1939.  The indices were derived using the hedonics method of price index measurement, which extracts the...
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An I(2) analysis of Australian inflation and the markup is undertaken within an imperfect competition model. It is … inflation results in a lower markup in the steady state. The negative correlation between inflation and the markup is …
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will choose not to include any indexation coverage in their wage contracts even when inflation is uncertain, unless the … perceived inflation uncertainty is high enough. Significantly, the exercise does not presume any exogenous costs (e …
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An I(2) analysis of inflation and the markup in undertaken for the G7 economies and Australia. We find that the levels … cointegrates with inflation and that higher inflation leads to a lower markup on the steady state. The lower markup is interpreted …
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The 'expectations critique', usually attributed to Friedman or Phelps and dated towards the end of the 1960s, in fact originates much earlier.  And rather than being an insight properly attributable to a particular individual, it was, by that time, a commonplace of economic discussion.  This...
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trade-off between inflation and unemployment and were thereby led to advocate a policy of inflation.  It is argued here that … question; and very few advocated inflation on bases vulnerable to Friedman's theoretical critique.  The Phillips curve was put … to various uses, but advocating inflation was hardly amongst them.  It is suggested that one lasting result of the …
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