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This paper examines how Taiwan, China, has used monetary policy to deal with the impact of the two oil shocks since … inflationary impact from the large rise in the money supply. So far the central bank has been successful in holding the inflation …
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potentially nonlinear effects of inflation on economic growth. We find that inflation is associated with significantly lower … effects of inflation on economic growth. We also document significant variation in the effect of inflation on growth across …
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groups in the dispersion of household-specific rates of inflation. Using survey data on inflation expectations, I show that … demographic groups with greater dispersion in experienced inflation also disagree more about future inflation. I argue that these … results can be rationalized from the perspective of an imperfect information model in which idiosyncratic inflation experience …
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We study the pricing response of U.S. supermarkets to large demand shocks triggered by labor conflicts, mass population relocation, and shopping sprees around major snowstorms and hurricanes. Our focus on demand shocks is novel in the empirical literature that uses large datasets of individual...
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expected inflation. The inability of the Fed to maintain a credible commitment to low interest rates in the face of increased … government spending and rising inflation led to the Fed-Treasury Accord of March 1951. Following the Accord, the external …
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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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We examine differences in default rates by sector and obligor domicile. We find evidence that credit ratings have been imperfectly calibrated across issuer sectors in the past. Controlling for year of issue and rating, default rates appear to be higher for U.S. financial firms than for U.S....
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portfolio size and degree of risk aversion of potential investors, the ability to borrow, and the hedging opportunities provided …
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Correlations are crucial for pricing and hedging derivatives whose payoff depends on more than one asset. Typically … "correlation breakdown." As a result, risk managers worry that their hedges will be useless when they are most needed, namely …. We make this point analytically, by way of several numerical examples, and via an empirical illustration. ; But, risk …
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