In this paper we first propose a proxy for the maturity of a country’s export bundle based on product life cycle theory …. Employing a conditional latent class model, we then examine the effect of maturity of countries’ exports on their economic … faster when they specialize in less mature products in an advanced country regime. The effect of maturity turns insignificant …

average maturity of government debt. We analyse these relationships under two different institutional settings. In one case … given. We identify the main mechanisms through which inflation is affected by debt and debt maturity (a real balance effect … monetary and fiscal policy we find that the persistence and volatility of inflation depends on the sign, size and maturity …

This paper explores the relationship between inflation and the existence of a publicly-traded, long-maturity, nominal … economically and statistically significant; it is also insensitive to a variety of estimation strategies, including using political …