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An indexed unit of account is a unit of measurement defined using an index such as a consumer price index so that prices defined in terms of these units will automatically adjust to changing economic conditions. Evidence on sticky prices and money illusion, and evidence from countries (notably...
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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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This paper evaluates optimal public investment and fiscal policy for countries characterized by limited tax and debt capacities. We study a non stochastic CRS endogenous growth model where public expenditure is an input in the production process, in countries where distortions and limited...
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In a number of influential recent papers, Taylor (1979a, b; 1980a, b) has analyzed the behaviour of an economy characterized by staggered over-lapping wage contracts and rational expectations. His model has the "Keynesian" feature that the second moment of the distribution function of real output...
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environment with uncertain inflation, a nominal FRM has risky real capital value whereas an ARM has a stable real capital value … prefer an ARM. The paper also considers an inflation-indexed FRM, which removes the wealth risk of the nominal FRM without … mortgage indexation can be very large …
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The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the …
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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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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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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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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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