estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of … the euro. Real economic growth as well as median wage developments are reexamined in light of the alternative inflation …

Both Japan and parts of the European Monetary Union have experienced boom and bust in stock and real estate markets … public debt and monetary policy in the context of crisis. It is shown for Japan that the attempts to maintain regional … expansion. Econometric estimations show that in Japan regional redistribution of funds has ensured homogeneous living conditions …

stability. To contain domestic inflation these central banks absorb rather then provide liquidity in their regular monetary … policy operations. Based on an augmented Barro-Gordon framework we show that inflation targeting within an environment of … implementing sterilization costs into the central bank's objective function the inflation bias increases. -- inflation targeting …

The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … prices and goods with prices controlled by the government we show that inflation in Japan has been kept low by mainly three …

China has been provoked into speeding renminbi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial … repression in domestic interest rates→to avoid an avalanche of foreign capital inflows that would threaten inflation and asset … could attract even more hot money inflows, the People's Bank of China should focus on tightly stabilizing the yuan/ dollar …

Since 2004, China has been backed into a situation where the renminbi is expected to go ever higher against the dollar ….S. dollar, the resulting monetary explosion in China contributes to the worldwide increase in primary commodity priceswith … excess liquidity reminiscent of the global inflation generated by the weak dollar in the 1970s. -- Inflation ; exchange rates …

constitute long-term appreciation expectations on yuan and yen, which have made China and Japan vulnerable to U.S. interest rate … cuts and appreciation expectation shocks. For both China and Japan - at different points of time - self-fulfilling runs …, speculative bubbles and post-bubble secular stagnation. To prevent a similar scenario for China capital controls, a tighter …