This paper examines five problems with the inflation indexing procedures used by the Social Security Administration of … the United States in taking inflation into account when calculating Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Benefits … indexing. As a result of Problems #2 and #4 your OASI check will be larger if wage inflation happens to be extra high in your …

reactiveness of inflation to the unemployment rate. In regard to a monetary union, the national unemployment multiplier in the …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth,? describing the … expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our empirical analysis suggests that this Phillips curve may be … reasonably flat. We show that the persistence of inflation and unemployment, in response to monetary policy shocks, is related to …

This paper examines the presence of asymmetric behavior in exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) to CPI inflation in 12 …

domestic currency, increases interest rates, effectively controls inflation rates and reduces output. They do not find any …