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Ukraine's gas pricing policy subsidizes gas and heating for all households. As the cost of imported gas rises, this policy increasingly weighs on government finances, sustains energy over-consumption, dampens investment in delivery systems, and undermines incentives for domestic production....
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BACKGROUND -- III. A MODEL OF A POLITICAL PRICE CYCLES IN A REGULATED INDUSTRY -- IV. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- V. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Appendix 1. List of Countries Included in the Empirical Work -- REFERENCES.
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the inflation tax. Accordingly, continued effort is likely to be needed to attain a fiscal position that is sustainable …
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finds that higher credit-to-GDP ratios are associated with stronger creditor rights and lower inflation, and that the … marginal effect of improvements in creditor rights protection is declining as the rate of inflation increases. The analysis … suggests that in a high inflation environment, controlling inflation and reducing macroeconomic volatility should be given …
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The Turkish economy is typically characterized as having particularly high real interest rates. Fundamental considerations, such as high growth rates or high returns to capital, do not provide a satisfactory resolution of this puzzle. Instead, we find that two other factors- doubts about the...
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This paper extends a small linear model of the Israeli economy to allow for nonlinearities in the inflation …
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This paper shows that the response of inflation to external shocks is very different when the authorities target the … would have no effect on the steady-state inflation rate under a fixed exchange rate are either inflationary or deflationary …
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In this paper, the IMF's new Global Economy Model (GEM) is used to estimate the contribution of unbalanced growth to the decline in the share of goods production in Australia and New Zealand. The simulation results suggest that faster productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in...
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to explain most features of the "Great Inflation." …
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changes have swifter effects on output and inflation compared to advanced economies and that exchange rate dynamics plays a … key role in this connection. Importantly, the response of inflation to monetary policy shocks has grown stronger and the … output-inflation tradeoff improved since the introduction of inflation targeting. …
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