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There are three possible price movements in a market economy: stability, inflation, and deflation. Inflation and … deflation are defined in this article as changes in the purchasing power of money caused by the money creation. Inflation and …
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This article attempts to answer a few open questions related to price convergence in the Czech Republic and in other Central and Eastern European Countries toward prices in the European Union. The authors address the following issues: First, what, from the theoretical viewpoint, should the...
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The article summarizes the main points discussed at the seminar on Monetary Policy during Very Low Inflation, held by … research into low inflation and its implication for the Czech economy. The presentation was largely based on material available …
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During 1930s and 1940s Josef Macek developed monetary theory leading to monetary policy recommendations which are deeply influenced by macroeconomic theory of John Maynard Keynes. Macek became leading Czech left-wing keynesian. His theory of money was nominalist and similarly to J. M. Keynes and...
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New members of the EU will not form an optimum currency area with the present eurozone member states. The article discusses some costs and benefits of an early EMU entry for the Czech Republic (and other Central-European economies). The authors concentrate on the consequences of loss of...
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inflation targeting. First, new consensus with its roots in Wicksell´s approach is briefly introduced. In the next parts … differences are found (goals of monetary policy, interest rate functions, nature of inflation, shape of Phillips curve and others …
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consumer price index. These indicators modify the original inflation information. It is important to analyze the difference of … the consumer price index, monthly and yearly inflation rates, from the viewpoint of their frequency content, time lag and …Monthly and yearly inflation rates can be understood as rates of dynamics of the basic inflation indicator i.e. the …
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This paper begins with a description of simple select models of inflation and their ability to fit the data. The paper … assign the best-forecast performance to the modified version of the P-star model of inflation for a small, open economy. …
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The Czech Economic Association, in co-operation with the Czech National Bank, organised a public seminar on ?The State of the Phillips Curve,? which featured a lecture by Professor Laurence Ball, in Prague in April 2001. Professor Ball, a professor of economics at John Hopkins University, began...
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