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The political economy of inflation
Nagatani, Keizo - 1984
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528675
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The politics of violence and populism in post-colonial democracy : the role of political society in South Africa
Koelble, Thomas A. - 2018
This paper argues that current levels of violence and populism in post-colonial spaces such as South Africa are a consequence of a socio-history of violent dispossession, exploitation and impoverishment and is perpetuated by the continuation of the socio-economic and political conditions rooted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944331
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Globalization and governmentality in the post-colony : South Africa under Jacob Zuma
Koelble, Thomas A. - 2018
This paper addresses two twin questions - what accounts for the deep political and eco-nomic crisis in South Africa? The answer this paper develops is that both desired outcomes - a thriving capitalist economy and a solid democracy - were based on Western models and assumptions about the South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944332
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The impact of weather shocks on employment outcomes : evidence from South Africa
Brookes Gray, Harriet; Taraz, Vis; Halliday, Simon D. - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879896
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Alcohol and short-run mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Bradshaw, Debbie; Parry, Charles D. H.; … - 2021
On July 13, 2020 a complete nation-wide ban was placed on the sale and transport of alcohol in South Africa. This paper evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find that the policy reduced the number of unnatural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500339
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166761
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Labor productivity, effort and the euro area business cycle
Lewis, Vivien; Villa, Stefania; Wolters, Maik H. - 2019
, we demonstrate that effort dampens the response of inflation to exogenous shocks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012134398
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Vehicle currency pricing and exchange rate pass-through
Chen, Natalie; Chung, Wanyu; Novy, Dennis - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016788
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Extreme inflation and time-varying consumption growth
Dergunov, Ilya; Meinerding, Christoph; Schlag, Christian - 2019
In a parsimonious regime switching model, expected consumption growth varies over time. Adding in ation as a conditioning variable, we uncover two states in which expected consumption growth is low, one with high and one with negative expected in ation. Embedded in a general equilibrium asset...
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A trendy approach to UK inflation dynamics
Forbes, Kristin; Kirkham, Lewis; Theordoridis, Konstantinos - 2017
This paper uses a "trendy" approach to understand UK inflation dynamics. It focuses on the time series to isolate a low …-frequency and slow-moving component of inflation (the trend) from deviations around this trend. We find that this slow-moving trend … explains a substantial share of UK inflation dynamics. International prices are significantly correlated with the short …
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