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Equity Returns and Inflation: The Puzzlingly Long Lags
Lothian, James R.; McCarthy, Cornelia H.. - EconWPA - 2001
equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124935
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Financial contagion, interest rates and the role of the exchange rate as shock absorber in Central and Eastern Europe
Habib, Maurizio Michael - EconWPA - 2002
Republic, Hungary and Poland during the period August 1997 – May 2001. I find that neither exchange rates nor interest rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125528
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Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries
Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002
A 2002 survey of 1089 Czechs and 501 Slovaks, as well as a more limited survey of Hungary, and Poland, indicates that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408409
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Financial Crises and the Presence of Foreign Banks
Tschoegl, Adrian E. - EconWPA - 2004
The paper distinguishes between the classic or traditional foreign banks with their emphasis on corporate and wholesale banking, and the innovators responding to transition, deregulation or crisis in emerging markets. The innovators come in three varieties—bettors, prospectors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556647
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CLAVES DE LA INFLACION DE 2005
Marongiu, Federico - EconWPA - 2005
El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076625
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Exchange Rate Regimes and Nominal Convergence in the CEECs
Järvinen, Marketta - EconWPA - 2002
This paper examines, in the context of future EMU membership of the Central and Eastern European countiries (CEECs), the interaction between fiscal policy and the price level in different exchange rate regimes. The theoretical framework is based on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076688
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Is corporatism feasible?
Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076716
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INFLATION AND PRICE DISPERSION IN EQUITY MARKETS AND IN GOODS AND SERVICES MARKETS
Popper, David Parsley Helen - EconWPA - 2002
An empirical link between inflation and price dispersion has been well established in goods and services markets – both …. Specifically, we examine the link between inflation and price dispersion in an empirical setting patently lacking the market … inflation-dispersion link in goods and services markets with a matched panel of equity market prices. Surprisingly, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076784
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Who Controls the Price Level?
Erdogdu, Oya S. - EconWPA - 2003
Under the guidance of different theories and the problem of dominance and activeness, this study gives a survey of the rapidly growing literature on Fiscal Theory of Price Level, which opens up new horizons in a non–Ricardian world and questions the effectiveness of monetary policy on price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076798
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Staggered prices and trend inflation: some nuisances
Ascari, Guido - EconWPA - 2004
Most of the papers in the sticky-price literature are based on a log- linearization around the zero inflation steady … state, a simplifying but counterfactual assumption. This paper shows that when trend inflation is considered, both the long … results obtained by models log-linearized around a zero inflation steady state are quite misleading. Furthermore, the same is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076806