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Based upon a large fraction of the price records used for computing the French CPI, we document consumer price rigidity in France. We first provide a methodological discussion of issues involved in estimating average price duration with micro-data. The average duration of prices in the sectors...
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We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …
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Equilibrium correction models of the price level are often used to model inflation. Such models assume that the long …
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Forecasting the world economy is a di¢ cult task given the complex interre-lationships within and across countries. This paper proposes a number ofapproaches to forecast short-term changes in selected world economic vari-ables and aims, …rst, at ranking various forecasting methods in terms...
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model of inflation determination estimated on the Czech data.We characterize the estimated components of CPI, WPI and import …
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approach and country specific models. First, co-integration among the parsimoniously specified set of fundamental variables is …
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equilibrium level implied by the model seem to contain information on future changes in inflation, though not on its level. JEL …
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JEL Classification: C22, E52
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The paper considers a Bayesian approach to the cointegrated VAR model with a uniform prior on the cointegration space …. Building on earlier work by Villani (2005b), where the posterior probability of the cointegration rank can be calculated … the marginal likelihood identity is used for calculating these probabilities, a point estimator of the cointegration space …
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In this paper we present an empirically stable money demand model for Euro area M3. We show that housing wealth is an important explanatory variable of long-run money demand that captures the trending behaviour of M3 velocity, in particular its shift in the first half of this decade. We show...
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