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processes in the two sectors. Restrictions from this model are used with data on wages and prices to construct measures of …
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Data on international relative prices from industrialized countries show large and systematic deviations from relative … international relative prices. We find that when our model is parameterized to match salient features of the data on international … trade and market structure in the U.S., it reproduces deviations from relative purchasing power parity similar to those …
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productivity" channel. The relative price channel results from changes in the relative prices of aggregates, such as investment vis …
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This paper documents significant time-variation in the degree of global price convergence over the last two decades. In particular, there appears to be a general U-shaped pattern with price dispersion first falling and then rising in recent years, a pattern which is remarkably robust across...
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We investigate the extent to which inflation targeting helps anchor long-run inflation expectations by comparing the behavior of daily bond yield data in the United Kingdom and Sweden--both inflation targeters--to that in the United States, a non-inflation-targeter. Using the difference between...
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Whether prices are pro- or counter-cyclical represents a major difference in the predictions of models that focus on … supply. Earlier studies have interpreted their finding of generally negative cross-correlations between output and prices in … generated them, or whether prices are best characterized as pro- or counter-cyclical. In fact, negative price output …
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We show that house prices may be driven entirely by the demands of one identifiable group for several years and then by … demands of another group at other times. We present evidence that house prices in Hawaii were subject to such regime shifts …. Prices responded to demands associated with American income and wealth for most years from 1975 through 2008. From the middle …
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triggering a decline in commodity prices. Moreover, our analysis illustrates the importance of controlling for market ….S. dollar and the British pound on announcement days, while commodity prices generally declined despite this more stimulative … expectations when assessing these effects. We find that positive U.S. monetary surprises led to declines in commodity prices, even …
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Remarks at the Rotary Club of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee, July 20, 2009
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