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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 existing evidence rejecting the EH in nominal bonds. This...
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, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset …
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, we conclude that swap positions are not economically significant in hedging the interest rate risk of bank assets …
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hedging approach can eliminate nearly 90 percent of the tracking error of more conventional inflation hedging strategies. We … also find that long-short positions in equities play a dominant role in the effective hedging of inflation risk over …
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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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experience with such units in Chile is discussed. It is argued" that important practical problems in implementing indexation were …
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This paper examines the optimal location-based redistribution policy and shows that adjustment for local price levels is occasionally optimal, but never for the reasons suggested by the popular press. First, the existence of a spatial equilibrium suggests that utility levels will be equalized...
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argued that the United States should follow suit. This paper provides an overview of the issues surrounding debt indexation …
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Much of the opposition to indexation as a means of adapting to on going inflation arises from the view that indexation … deficits are in part financed through the printing of money. It is shown that all aspects of indexing -- wage indexation, bond … indexation, and tax indexation -- tend to increase the impact on the price level of any inflationary shock. However, this …
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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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