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In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), among youths ages 12 through 18. The...
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In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), among youths ages 12 through 18. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814472
An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in …
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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 …
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We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of … establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … United States economy and the long-run equilibrium properties are compared at low and high inflation. We find that, when the …
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inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the flexible countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
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, inflation and housing prices. Flows into both full and partial retirement increase significantly when the unemployment rate … spell, while older workers accelerate their transition to full retirement. We also find that high inflation discourages full …
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year and the NMW shapes the timing of industry-level wage bargaining. Inflation but also changes in past aggregate wage … macro variables are 0.6, 0.4 and 0.3 respectively. Inflation and the NMW have both decreasing but positive effects all along …
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find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity, which for rates of inflation lower than three percent is shown to …
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