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Robust GDP growth, declining unemployment, low and stable inflation, and a string of fiscal and current account …
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.2 percent to 7.8 percent. A fixed wage or indexation to consumption price inflation increases volatility most. Indexation to … wage inflation or unit labor cost growth is preferable, largely preserving labor market flexibility. …
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It is widely feared that, once prices are decontrolled in the formerly centrally–planned economies, households’ release of previously accumulated money will trigger a hyperinflation. This paper finds, instead, that whether a country’s fiscal, monetary, and labor market policies are...
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This paper evaluates the proposal that government authorities ought to target nominal income. It begins by viewing the literature in some detail. It then undertakes a theoretical analysis of the proposal first for the small country and next for the large country. There is then a general...
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This article uses two analytical methodologies to understand the dynamics of inflation in Paraguay, the mark-up theory … of inflation and the monetary theory of inflation. We also study the impact of different monetary aggregates. The results … suggest that monetary factors, in particular currency in circulation, play a major role in determining long-run inflation …
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Using quarterly time-series data for a sample of twelve industrial countries, the paper investigates the dynamics of nominal wage and price adjustments in the face of aggregate demand shocks. The evidence illustrates patterns of the wage-price spiral and accompanying fluctuations. During...
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For a sample of US industries, nominal wage and price inflation follow aggregate price inflation closely during … contras to producers’ attempt to maintain, or even increase, industrial real price inflation during recessions. Consistently …
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behavior, the fiscal deficit, inflation and the capital stock. Wage controls have been widely advocated as a response to the … capital decumulation and reduce inflation, since wage moderation implies higher government revenues from the profit tax and … degree of wage indexation is effective in lowering inflation if nominal wages do not provide, on average, full protection …
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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The staff report for the 2006 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights economic developments and monetary and exchange rate policy. Botswana’s growth has been fueled by continued increases in diamond production; and real diamond output is projected to level off, and then decline...
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