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, Malaysia). Among countries with inflation below target, in those with trend inflation low but constant (Australia, New Zealand …Trend inflation estimates for 12 of the largest Asian economies over 1995-2018 offer important insights on inflation … dynamics and inflation expectations. The disinflationary shocks that hit the region since 2014 were partly transitory, but …
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We compute average mark-ups as a measure of market power throughout time and study their interaction with fiscal policy and macroeconomic variables in a VAR framework. From impulse-response functions the results, with annual data for a set of 14 OECD countries covering the period 1970-2007, show...
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This paper investigates the relationship between bank funding costs and solvency for a large sample of euro area banks using two proprietary ECB datasets for both wholesale funding costs and deposit rates. In particular, the paper studies the relationship between bank solvency, on the one hand,...
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- both per hour and per worker - in the United States, the Eurozone, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Japan over the post …
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were conducted in 2009 (Canada), 2010 (Australia), 2011 (Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands), and 2012 (the …
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that the root cause is its inability to predict domestic and foreign inflation. This shortcoming leads us toward simpler …
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, and in the Eurozone, Canada, and Australia over the post-WWII period. Overall, our evidence does not provide much support …
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We jointly estimate the natural rate of interest, the natural rate of unemployment, expected inflation, and potential … output for the Euro area, the United States, Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Particular attention is paid to time …-variation in (i) the data-generation process for inflation, which we capture via a time-varying parameters specification for the …
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In this paper we explore the link between the intensity of product market competition and inflation rates across EU … countries and sectors. We consider long-term averages of inflation rates in order to remove the cyclical behavior of inflation … product market competition, as proxied by the level of mark-up in particular, is an important driver of inflation …
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setting behaviour of Portuguese firms. Inflation, the level of economic activity and the magnitude of the last price change …
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