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1889-1891 period having a higher cost of changing prices resulting in less adjustment to transitory price shocks. Changes … in the retailing environment that may have led to a higher cost of changing prices in 1889-1891 are discussed. …
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We survey the evidence bearing on measurement error in the CPI and provide our best estimate of the magnitude of CPI bias. We also identify a "weighting" bias in the CPI that has not been previously discussed in the literature. In total, we estimate that the CPI overstates the change in the cost...
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stochastic differential equations which describe the dynamic paths of a vector of state variables, prices, and PPP deviations …
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We test for efficiency in the market for Swedish co-ops by examining the negative relationship between the sales price and the present value of future rents. If the co-op housing market is efficient, the present value of co-op rental payments due to underlying debt obligations of the cooperative...
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composition of expenditure, and on the wedge between consumer and domestic prices, rather than on the response of aggregate output … and domestic prices. …
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the special case in which prices are sticky and wages are perfectly flexible. When the model is calibrated to exhibit an …
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experienced the most pronounced fluctuations in income and prices of this century. Is our current understanding of the behavior of … suggest that the role of income and prices in determining imports is not known with any precision. This paper offers the first …-1992 data, I find that income and prices do not affect imports whereas the opposite conclusion arises with postwar data. The …
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If price levels are initially different across the euro area, convergence to a common level of prices would imply that … inflation will be higher in countries where prices are initially low. Price level convergence thus provides a potential … between 1990 and 1999 prices did become less dispersed in the euro area. Convergence is especially evident for traded goods …
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This paper applies a new method to investigate the foreign exchange risk premium. The method is new in the sense that it utilizes the time-varying second moment expectations implied by foreign currency option pricing. The vast empirical literature on the risk premium generally neglects the role...
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