increases in oil prices, or scaling back of contract awards and military bases -- have a greater impact than equal …

time, oil prices started rising again. We analyze how the ZLB affects the propagation of oil shocks. As these shocks move …-sensitive component of GDP, offsetting the usual contractionary effects. In fact, if the increase in oil prices is gradual, the persistent …

stochastic differential equations which describe the dynamic paths of a vector of state variables, prices, and PPP deviations …

composition of expenditure, and on the wedge between consumer and domestic prices, rather than on the response of aggregate output … and domestic prices. …

the special case in which prices are sticky and wages are perfectly flexible. When the model is calibrated to exhibit an …

experienced the most pronounced fluctuations in income and prices of this century. Is our current understanding of the behavior of … suggest that the role of income and prices in determining imports is not known with any precision. This paper offers the first …-1992 data, I find that income and prices do not affect imports whereas the opposite conclusion arises with postwar data. The …

If price levels are initially different across the euro area, convergence to a common level of prices would imply that … inflation will be higher in countries where prices are initially low. Price level convergence thus provides a potential … between 1990 and 1999 prices did become less dispersed in the euro area. Convergence is especially evident for traded goods …

We reexamine the evidence for border effects in deviations from the law of one price, using data for consumer prices … rather than price index data. We find evidence of border effects both in the levels of prices and the percentage change in … prices. Even accounting for distance between cities and relative population sizes, we find that the absolute difference …