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yields on long maturity inflation - indexed bonds. This relationship can be interpreted as defining the fair value of the … exchange rate that will prevail in any model or real world economy in which inflation indexed bonds are traded. An advantage of … with a 50 basis point rise in the inflation indexed bond return differential in favor of the foreign country and an 50 …
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We study the impact of targeted price controls for supermarket products in Argentina from 2007 to 2015. Using web …-scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation … CPI weight, they have a temporary effect on aggregate inflation and no downward effect on other goods. Second, contrary to …
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The contrast between the early nineteenth century Argentinean experience of high inflation and the American experience … of low inflation is interpreted in terms of a dynamic monetary model of optimal taxation. It is argued that the two … the presence of frequent wars, ever-tightening access to foreign capital, and an inadequate tax base, Argentina's use of …
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as the manifestation of excessive monetary injections [Krugman-Flood-Garber], the fiscal theory of inflation [Sargent …-finance optimizing problem. We shows that under conditions similar to those which prevailed in Russia and Argentina prior to their …
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This paper empirically analyzes the Expectations Hypothesis (EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal … bonds in the US and in the UK. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds, and also confirm and update the … premium, or the break-even inflation risk premium, also varies over time. We argue that the time variation in real bond risk …
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Social Security is widely believed to protect its recipients from inflation because benefits are indexed to the …
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are explicitly indexed to inflation, higher energy prices automatically lead to cost-of-living adjustments for recipients …
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This paper explores the history of inflation-indexed bond markets in the US and the UK. It documents a massive decline … financial crisis of 2008. Breakeven inflation rates, calculated from inflation- indexed and nominal government bond yields … inflation-indexed yields and high short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for …
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The main arguments in favor and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus … unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the benefits …
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Debt sustainability is fundamentally a probabilistic concept: Debt is rarely sustainable with probability one. We propose an index of external debt sustainability that reflects this uncertainty. Namely we construct the index as the probability that, at the current exchange rate, net external...
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