The paper examines the impact of recent inflation and financial shocks on the vulnerable, and explores policy design to … reduce both future shocks and vulnerability to shocks. Inflation affects the typical savings cum pension portfolio and the …, which tend to increase with age, aggravate the psychological trauma associated with inflation. The decline of traditional …

We examine determinants of inflation in China. Analyses of both yearonyear and monthonmonth growth data confirm excess … liquidity, output gap, housing prices and stock prices positively affecting inflation. Impulse response analyses indicate that … exchange rates on inflation are relatively weak. Our results suggest that output gap is as important as excess liquidity in …

This study contributes to the stock returns-inflation relation literature in developing countries by revisiting the … effective hedge against inflation usingmonthly data on real stock return, inflation and real activity from April 1980 to March … real activity; (ii) the negative stock returns-inflation relation emerges fromthe unexpected component of the inflation and …