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inflation and unemployment among EMS members since the late 1970s. This paper presents new empirical evidence for this … inflation countries -- France and Italy -- have experienced a decrease in tolerance for inflation relative to unemployment …. Germany and other low inflation countries, in contrast, appear to have experienced a decrease in tolerance for unemployment …
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reforms may cause jumps in inflation and the exchange rate through their impact on the government budget. In order to achieve … a sustainable reduction in inflation an exchange rate freeze or crawling peg is shown to require restrictions not only …-collapse inflation will exceed the rate prevailing before the freeze started …
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discusses the interaction of inflation and exchange rate policy in a variety of contexts. Four different settings are used to … in the transition from high to even higher inflation discussed in the context of Brazil; exchange rate fixing and real … deviatiins arise and how they influence inflation, trade and capital flight …
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the overall magnitude of imported inflation and the relative importance of three major channels of transmission (price …, money and income) in Japanese inflation during the period covered. These results imply that closing of one channel of …
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The most important conclusion of this paper is that the growth rate of the money supply influences the U.S. inflation …, help to explain why U.S. inflation was so low in 1976 and why it accelerated so rapidly in 1978. Granger causality tests … indicate that lagged exchange rate changes influence inflation, but lagged inflation does not cause exchange rate changes. A …
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draw some implications for timing between monetary expansion and inflation, inter-country comparisons of inflation rates … lead inflation in the sense that money Granger-causes prices without feedback, contradicting an implication of the monetary … of inflation during the fixed exchange rate period, providing no evidence for a generalized "law of one price." (3) Some …
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desirable policy is not addressed here. Consistently followed, it would result in a higher long-run rate of inflation, because …
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It is almost invariably taken for granted in theoretical descriptions of the international price mechanism and in the construction of trade models that a country's export price for a particular product is identical to its domestic price. Any impact of foreign or domestic events on prices is...
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of precommitment in monetary policy leads to excessive inflation. Because unanticipated monetary expansion leads to real … inflation will be lower in more open economies. After presenting a simple theoretical model demonstrating this prediction of the … theory, the paper examines the link between openness and inflation using cross-country data. The data reveal a strong …
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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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