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Our aim in this paper is to test the robustness of the relation between total factor productivity growth and inflation … period 1964-1980. The results confirm that the acceleration of inflation from 1964-1972 to 1973-1980 reduced total factor … effect of inflation is separated from the effects of technical change and economies of scale, the choice of functional form …
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The empirical evidence suggests that there is a significant, negative relationship between inflation and economic …. Therefore the technology of the financial sector influences the velocity of money, and consequently, how inflation affects … generates an inflation-growth effect whose magnitude falls in the range found by the empirical studies. Moreover, in contrast to …
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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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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...
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based on the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (FTPL). The re sults show that a credibly fixed exchange rate is inconsistent …
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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...
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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 …
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rapidly growing literature on Fiscal Theory of Price Level, which opens up new horizons in a non–Ricardian world and questions …
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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 …
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During the last two decades of the twentieth century, Brazil went through a sequence of failed stabilization plans that tried to cope with an enduring hyperinflation. This paper uses a money demand model to evaluate monetary policies during those episodes. The consistency between the money...
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