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model does a good job of accounting for the joint behavior of labor and goods markets, as well as inflation, during the … capital played critical roles in accounting for the small size of the drop in inflation that occurred during the Great …
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This paper uses the historical narrative record to determine whether inflation expectations shifted during the second … and the forecasts of contemporary business analysts, we show that inflation expectations increased dramatically. Second …, using an event-studies approach, we identify the impact on financial markets of the key events that shifted inflation …
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strengthen the countercyclical behavior of markups and attenuate the response of inflation to fluctuations in output. …
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This paper studies consumers' inflation expectations using micro-level data from the Surveys of Consumers conducted by … inflation. Equivalent results are found during recessions. …
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empirical stylized facts. Pricing patterns mostly conform to these patterns. Most price changes are positive, and inflation is …
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The object of this paper is to develop an operational early warning system (EWS) that can detect financial crises. To achieve this goal the paper analyzes and extends the early warning system developed by Kaminsky, Lizondo, and Reinhart (1998) and Kaminsky and Reinhart (1999) that is based on...
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In his seminal 1960 study on the dynamics of alternative exchange rate regimes, Robert Mundell proposed a theory of balance-of-payments crises in which speculators base their actions on the observed holdings of central bank foreign reserves. We examine the quantitative implications of this view...
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demand for broad money in the United Kingdom over 1878-1975. We update that model over 1976-1993, accounting for changed data … follow for parameter nonconstancy and predictive failure, causation between money and prices, monetary targeting …
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The abruptness and virulence of the 1997 Asian crises have led many to claim that these crises are of a new breed and thus they were unforecastable. This paper examines 102 financial crises in 20 countries and concludes that the Asian crises are not of a new variety. Overall, the 1997 Asian...
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