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The purpose of this paper is to examine the composition of inflation over time. The authors calculate the contributions … to inflation for individual series of the consumer price index (CPI) and personal consumption expenditures price index … of information concerning aggregate inflation behavior in a concise way, enabling the authors to describe the composition …
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This paper develops a set of leading indicators of industrial production growth and consumer price inflation for the … inflation. Our findings provide evidence on the factors determining real activity and inflation in a period of disinflation and …
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This paper develops a liquidity measure tailored to the foreign exchange (FX) market, quanties the amount of commonality in liquidity across dierent exchange rates, and determines theextent of liquidity risk premiums embedded in FX returns. The new liquidity measure utilizesultra high frequency...
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measurement instruments are not appropriate for diagnostic purposes, and their scores overlap substantially with other disorders …
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This paper explores the impact of digital technologies on the nature and routine intensity of shopfloor work, the ways in which digital technologies exert their effects and the factors moderating the outcomes of digitalisation in respect of work. The effect of technology cannot be limited to a...
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, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We …
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inflation through the identification of turning points and structural shocks. After establishing the sought-after properties (of … smoothness, stability, and forecasting) for core inflation, we turn to the discussion of real-time diagnosis for a low inflation … environment. This is done in the context of weekly estimates of Swiss inflation. The intra-monthly estimates for core inflation …
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A dynamic model of consumer behavior that incorporates the demand for housing is specified such that it is consistent with the general purpose of a consumer price index. From this model a true cost-of-living index that includes housing is derived. Being an ideal index it cannot be computed...
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It is well-known that the extent of pass-through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices is much lower than to import prices. One explanation is local distribution costs. Here we consider an alternative, complementary, explanation based on the optimal pricing strategies of firms. We consider...
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