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We estimate the long-run impact of cash transfers to poor families on children’s longevity, educational attainment, nutritional status, and income in adulthood. To do so, we collected individual-level administrative records of applicants to the Mothers’ Pension program — the first...
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consequences of this seigniorage tax from the consequent inflation. But another goal of this study is to demonstrate that inflation … increased quantity of now debased coins (of the same face value) quickly enough, before the full force of inflation was felt …
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Many countries simultaneously suffer from high inflation, low growth and poorly developed financial sectors. In this … inflation on welfare, growth and the size of the financial sector. A novel feature is that the innovation sector is … contrast to previous work, reducing inflation generates large growth gains. These large gains cannot be easily reproduced by …
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real wages increased, both from a rise in the marginal productivity of labour and also from a corresponding fall in the … produced here reveals cycles of inflation and deflation from the late 12th to early 16th century: with a sharp deflation before … the Black Death, an equally severe inflation for the quarter century following the Black Death, which was then followed by …
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Many pricing models imply that nominal interest rates contain information on inflation expectations. This has lead to a … large empirical literature that investigates the use of interest rates as predictors of future inflation. Most of these … focus on the Fisher hypothesis in which the interest rate maturity matches the inflation horizon. In general forecast …
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. Incorporating shocks to money growth and productivity, we calibrate the model to the US time series data to examine the model …
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This paper analyses the major changes in textile products, production costs, prices, and market orientations during the era when the �draperies� or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly dependent upon northern markets and the German...
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) – presumably altered the land:labour ratio sufficiently to increase the marginal productivity of labour and thus its real wage … productivity of agricultural labour. But the evidence produced in this study demonstrates that the Black Death was followed, in … monetary forces in producing deflation in the second and final quarters of the fourteenth century, but severe inflation in …
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The late Prof. Hans Van Werveke, in two very contentious articles, had contended that the monetary policies of Count Lodewijk van Male (Louis de Male) 'had checked, for some time at least, the decay of the Flemish cloth industry' by allowing its industrial entrepreneurs (weaver-drapers) to pay...
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merchants spent their increased supply of coins quickly, before any ensuing inflation eroded those gains. This study further …
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