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Inflation Forecasting with Inflation Sentiment Indicators

Döhrn, Roland; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Zimmermann, Tobias - 2008

In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared by many components of the CPI basket. In a...

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How successful are exchange rate communication and interventions? Evidence from time-series and event-study approaches

Fratzscher, Marcel - 2005

The paper analyses whether communication and actual interventions in FX markets are successful in moving exchange rates over the medium- to long-run. It compares empirical evidence based on time-series analysis with that obtained from an eventstudy approach. Both the time-series approach based...

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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada

Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010

This comparative study of the relationship between family economic background and adult outcomes in the United States and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds that there are significant differences in the degree of...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Immigration Policies: Competing for Skills

Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 4, pp. 27-33

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The Financial Crisis in Japan – Are There Similarities to the Current Situation?

Mayr, Johannes - In: CESifo Forum 09 (2008) 4, pp. 64-68

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Do Strict Electoral Campaign Finance Rules Limit Corruption?

Stratmann, Thomas - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 1, pp. 24-27

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Inflation perception and the formation of inflation expectations

Schmidt, Torsten; Müller, Henrik; Rieger, Jonas; … - 2023

In this paper, we present a new indicator to measure the media coverage of inflation. Our Inflation Perception … inflation perception over time. Methodically, the IPI makes use of RollingLDA, a dynamic topic modeling approach refining the … inflation perception indicator as well as for specific topics to analyze time-varying correlations with time series for …

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Are Japanese households financially healthy, and if so, why? A Group of Seven (G7) comparison

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012

In this paper, I conduct an international comparison of the financial health of households using data on household wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were the highest among the G7 countries, at least until 2000,...

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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment

Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2018

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our study is motivated by profound recent changes in the composition of the unionized workforce. Historically, union jobs were concentrated among low-skilled men in private sector...

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