were intended to break an "inertial" component of inflation. This paper focuses on a specific mechanism through which … inflation inertia can emerge: the interaction between lack of credibility of government monetary policy announcements and the … price setting period; that is important since the price setting period is likely to be short in high inflation economies. We …

-profiteering measures on food necessities during a period of high inflation in Argentina. Using barcode-level data across more than 3 …

-scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation … CPI weight, they have a temporary effect on aggregate inflation and no downward effect on other goods. Second, contrary to …

This paper explores the effects of relative food prices on body weight and body fat over time in China. We study a … cohort of 15,000 adults from over 200 communities in China, using the longitudinal China Health and Nutrition Survey (1991 …

, fuel economy standards for automobiles, renewable portfolio standards, low carbon fuel standards, and--most recently--China … substantial gains could arise from shifting two programs, China's new national carbon market (~60% gain) and the California Low …

subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …