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stance, before and after its adoption of the inflation targeting framework, as revealed by its interest rate setting behavior … inflation by and large through its key policy rate, though it appears to be accommodative with respect to the output gap. In …
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According to several empirical studies, US inflation and nominal interest rates, as well as the real interest rate, can … be described as unit root processes. These results imply that nominal interest rates and expected inflation do not move … the three-month treasury bill rate and inflation share a common nonlinear component that explains a large part of their …
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The general view of the media, bankers, business and politicians, not noticeably contradicted by academics, is that one of the main functions, or the main function, of the central bank is to analyse the progress of the economy, and then to steer it with skilful judgement towards health and...
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equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …
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Subsequent to the economic difficulties of the 1980s, many Latin American governments reluctantly began to introduce market-oriented reform measures. In many cases, the new measures were adopted only as a means of participating in debt-relief programs such as the Brady Initiative. In no case,...
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The aim of this work is that of exemplifying some applications of the modern theory of the complexity to the economic …
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public sector. Under pressure from oil price inflation, the influx of Mozambican refugees and drought, government resorted to … manifested in reduced public investment, surging inflation and stagnation in per capita GDP. Implications of public sector …
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This paper consists of the page proofs of W. A. Barnett's interview of Paul A. Samuelson, to appear in print in the journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, in September 2004. To our knowledge, this is the first and only interview of Paul A. Samuelson published in a professional economics journal. In...
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Keynes (1936) said that shortage of money caused by hoarding or failure to invest led to unemployment, but Lucas (1972) said that money does not affect unemployment. The tables have now turned. Gani (2003) produced a model of indirect trade in which money is necessary as a means of payment....
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paper advance the concept of development power, give its basic models, and try to establish a theory of describing and … analyzing the macro-economy ©¤ the development power and derivative process. By means of the development power theory, we can …
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