Inflation persists at moderate rates (15-30 percent) in all the countries that successfully reduced triple …-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged … periods. The authors introduce types of theories of persistent inflation. Theories emphasizing seigniorage as a source of …

This paper investigates the long-run impact of inflation on homeowner equity in South Africa by analysing the … expenditure. In general, we infer that house prices in South Africa provide a stable, but quantitatively minor, inflation hedge in …

Inflation forecasts are a key ingredient for monetary policymaking - especially in an inflation targeting country such …. As such, other variables,e.g. such as alternative measures of inflation that might be of interest to policymakers, do not … generate recursive forecasts over 2000Q1-2011Q4. The hybrid DSGE performs extremely well in forecasting inflation variables …

This paper presents evidence on the behavior of output and inflation in the transition economies during 1992-95. A …

Soviet Union, and Mongolia for the period 1989-1994. Inflation rates have declined significantly in most countries following … an inflation stabilization program. Growth resumes after stabilization occurs, typically with a lag of about two years …. Reducing inflation thus appears to be a precondition for growth. An econometric analysis of the short-run determinants of …

The oil price-inflation relationship has been at the center of attention among economists and policy makers, especially … after 1970’s oil shocks that resulted to a significant increase in the inflation rate in number of countries around the … world. In this study, we aim to investigate the evolving relationship between oil price and inflation in South Africa, using …

This paper evaluates the welfare gain from reducing inflation permanently from two percent to price stability and … inflation and capital income taxation, in calculating the gain from moving to a zero rate of inflation. Though the annual … deadweight loss of a two percent inflation rate is 0.225 percent of GDP - a relatively small number when compared to the …