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progessivity (affecting higher income households more) of inflation experienced by households between April 2021 and July 2023 …. Despite a growing literature on the distributional impact of inflation, there is limited evidence on gender differentials. We … gender dimension to assess gender differences in inflation regressivity or progressivity, isolate the average inflation rate …
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In the wake of the global energy crisis, many European countries used energy price controls to fight inflation and to …. In addition, during the energy crisis 2022 inflation rates rose dramatically and real wages dropped more than in any …
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more pronounced; and (ii) in Brazil, the introduction of inflation targeting by the Central Bank in 1999 shifts the focal … point of wage negotiations from changes in the minimum wage to expected inflation. These regime changes cast doubts on the …
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This paper evaluates the success of Inflation Targeting on inflation and growth on a large panel data set of both … evidence to show that the support for a successful Inflation Targeting policy is very weak or non-existent. We use various … the process by which inflation targeting is hypothesised to influence inflation and growth, Section 3 surveys this …
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We study the link between expected inflation and wages using novel panel data from German firms and employees. We find … that pass-through - the percentage point change in wage growth given a one percentage point change in expected inflation … extensive margin, expected inflation has little effect on additional wage negotiations. …
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How costly is inflation to workers? Answers to this question have focused on the path of real wages during inflationary … periods. We argue that workers must take costly actions ("conflict") to have nominal wages catch up with inflation, meaning … there are welfare costs even if real wages do not fall as inflation rises. We study a menu-cost style model, where workers …
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and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …
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money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal …. -- inflation ; unemployment ; search-matching ; Friedman rule …
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not efficient. Inflation is detrimental to unemployment. …
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" - although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for the stylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly … asserted that, in the context of the new Phillips curve (NPC), inflation is a jump variable. We argue that this "persistency … equilibrium setting (in which real variables not only affect inflation, but are also influenced by it), standard wage …
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