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Using a recently introduced nonparametric test, I investigate two important and distinct asymmetries in cross-country quarterly macroeconomic time series. Asymmetries are suggested by many theories (old and new), and those discovered aid in the selection of the appropriate nonlinear time series...
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This paper shows that there are striking implications that stem from including durable goods in otherwise conventional sticky price models. The behavior of these models depends heavily on whether durable goods are present and whether these goods have sticky prices. If long-lived durables have...
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modest short-run output gains, greater excess demand pressures, noticeably higher CPI inflation rates over the whole of the …
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This paper considers a sticky price model with a cash-in-advance constraint where agents forecast inflation rates with …. While average output and inflation result the same as under rational expectations, higher moments differ substantially …: output and inflation show persistence, inflation responds sluggishly to nominal disturbances, and the dynamic correlations of …
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of the two. We compare the accounting definition of deficit with the economic definition which takes inflation into …
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inflation, has remained unexplained in terms of its mathematical origins. Keynes had attempted to relate inflation to a … mechanism of "sticky wages and prices". Hitherto, such theories of inflation have remained unproven and disputable. Recently …, during the so-called "New Economy" era, characterized by a spread of electronic transactions and Internet commerce, inflation …
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welfare, since it often reduces the union’s utility. In particular, we show that an inflation-neutral union will never find it …
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. This was a period of very low inflation. The rate of growth in the aggregate price level was occasionally very close to … inflation. The declining prices cannot, however, be explained by lack of demand or any generalized deflationary tendencies … develops a new method for looking at the composition of inflation and illustrating how relative price dynamics interact with …
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results in more persistent inflation as well as output responses to shocks, than without the supply-side channel. We also … discuss the different monetary and fiscal policy regimes and their implication on the stability of inflation and output. …
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This paper shows the way how persistent world inflation shocks hitting a small open economy can re-weight the … inflation. We derive a state-dependent Phillips curve based on translog preferences that make the elasticity of substitution of … disinflation on domestic inflation, as experienced in small open economies such as New Zealand, Chile and Peru. …
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