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This book presents a theoretical framework to explain chronic inflation and hyperinflation. The roots of these two … phenomenon are a fiscal monetary regime in which money issues finance the public deficit. Chronic inflation is modeled by using … policy rule states that money is issued to finance the public deficit. The chronic inflation models take into account the …
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Lukas Heim evaluates the performance of a price-level targeting rule compared to that of a standard inflation targeting …, and several additional structural disturbances. The results show that - exactly as expected - the volatility of inflation …-side shocks. Since inflation and output are targeted simultaneously, none of the two policies is strictly dominant. Contents …
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This book studies unemployment and inflation in economic crises, first considering the scenario of a demand shock in … European inflation. And what is more, there would be equally far-reaching fluctuations in the European money supply and … unemployment or European inflation; there would also be an explosion of European government purchases and an implosion of the …
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This book studies the coexistence of inflation and unemployment in a monetary union. The focus is on how to reduce the … associated loss. The primary target of the European central bank is low inflation in Europe. The primary target of the German … inflation and unemployment? Is monetary and fiscal cooperation superior to the sequential process of monetary and fiscal …
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Age of Productivity offers a look at how the low productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean is preventing the region from catching up with the developed world. The authors look beyond the traditional macro explanations and dig all the way down to the industry and firm level to uncover the...
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This book examines the facts concerning child labour in Latin America, how it varies over time; across countries; and in comparison to other areas of the world. It aims to improve the understanding of root causes and consequences of persistent child labour and to contribute to the policy debate.
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By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin...
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Social protection systems in Latin America developed in a fragmented manner, offering varying access to benefits and benefit levels to population groups. In the context of widespread informal and precarious work, social insurance institutions could only provide limited coverage. In this context,...
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INTRODUCTION -- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America -- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS -- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile...
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