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This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
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There is an extensive literature noting that high inflation can add to income inequality, and a parallel literature … assessing the effect of rising food prices on the poor. This paper attempts to combine these strands by dividing inflation into … food and nonfood inflation and assessing whether food inflation affects income inequality differently from nonfood …
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Inflation in Mongolia resembles a roller coaster ride with sharp rises and steep drops. Understanding why is critical … for formulating and assessing monetary policy. Food prices are found to be a key driver of inflation, and, not surprising …
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been to raise inflation targets to provide more room for policy rate easing during crises. This paper addresses a different … issue: the relationship between inflation and welfare. The literature is surveyed and a model is developed. A key conclusion … is that an increase in inflation targets gives rise to additional welfare costs, even after the extra room to m …
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times. An inflation shock only slightly reduces the debt ratio for a few quarters. A positive growth shock unambiguously …
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inflation, unemployment, government deficit, and GDP growth into a single indicator. In contrast to other indexes, the EPI does …
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policy has a strong and statistically significant impact on broad money, non-oil activity, and inflation in the GCC region …
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Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...
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We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure …
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Indian food and fuel inflation has remained high for several years, and second-round effects on core inflation are … model of the Indian economy, which incorporates pass-through from headline inflation to core inflation. The results indicate … that India's inflation is highly inertial and persistent. Due to second-round effects, the gap between headline inflation …
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