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This paper develops a model which can explain the hump-shaped impulse response of inflation to a monetary shock. A …). Nevertheless, we can show that inflation is hump-shaped under a reasonable range of parameters. It will be also shown that, in … order for inflation to be hump-shaped, sticky wages and variable capital utilization are important as well as dynamic …
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By placing store-level price data into bivariate Structural VAR models of inflation and relative price asymmetry, this … forecast error variance in inflation at the 12-month horizon. While the contemporaneous correlation between inflation and … relative price asymmetry is positive, idiosyncratic shocks lead to a substantial build-up in inflation only after two to five …
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In this paper, we study the statistical relationship between money and prices in Argentina during the last quarter of the 20th century. We first look at the unit root characteristics of the series which suggest dividing the whole sample into two sub-samples: 1976 to 1989 and 1991 to 2001, as...
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sub indexes’ inflation dynamics indicate that the exchange rate pass-through in the perfectly competitive sector is … sector. Also, that inflation inertia is lower in the former than in the latter; adding up in more volatility of the perfectly … competitive inflation rate. For policy makers an interesting feature of the perfectly competitive price index is that the evidence …
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Forecasting inflation remains an intriguing research topic among academics and practitioners alike. Recent studies by … or other macroeconomic and financial variables for the purpose of forecasting inflation. In particular, it is found that … Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) for forecasting inflation. Based upon the idea of model averaging, the BACE …
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One of the key inputs for inflation targeting regime is the right identification of inflationary or disinflationary … gap an inflation rate (Phillips Curve) and structural restrictions over output stochastic dynamics. The estimation is … problems and exhibits more relation with the Peruvian inflation process than other estimates, calculated with the Hodrick …
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, while those using GMM have reported the inflation dynamics to be predominantly forward-looking. This paper provides a …
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the transition period and to provide an estimate of how much the official Russian CPI has overstated consumer inflation …
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The empirical literature is abundant with detrended cointegration, where cointegration relations are estimated with deterministic trend terms. The use of detrended cointegration will mask important time series properties, however, because trend and cointegration indicate both deterministic and...
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first modeling long memory in inflation as a result of the aggregation of individual inflation expectations and then showing … how the adoption of inflation targeting decreases the memory length in seven countries due to its moderating effect on … individual inflation expectatio …
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