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The primary goal of this study was to determine the impact of price discriminationon tourism demand. Four objectives were defined with reference to the primaryresearch goal.The first objective was to analyse the concept of price discrimination and relevanttheories by means of a literature study....
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economic growth, inflation and also the channel through which the outcome is more significant. The results show that in all of …
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An f-percent filter rule in a foreign exchange market calls for buying a foreign currency when its price has risen by f percent above a trough and holding until its price has fallen f percent from a peak. If the foreign exchange rate following a random walk, this is an unprofitable strategy....
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This paper presents new non-linear regression estimates of the relationship between inflation and economic growth for … inflation is associated with moderate gains in GDP growth up to a roughly 15 – 18 percent inflation threshold. However, the … at all with either the inflation coefficient or our estimated turning point. With the middle income countries, we return …
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This paper examines the question of whether inflation targeting monetary policy is an appropriate framework for sub …-Saharan African countries. The paper presents an overview of inflation targeting, reviews the justification for the regime, and … summarizes some major critiques. Monetary policy responses to inflation depend on the source of inflationary pressures. Therefore …
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feature of lobbying pressures has an impact on the stabilization properties of monetary policy. When a supply shock occurs …, the shock is totally absorbed by a forward-looking trade-union which has no costs of lobbying, independently of any finite …
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Inflation targeting is a forward-looking framework for monetary policy that has brought unprecedented transparency to …) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has, since the introduction of inflation targeting, successfully communicated to the public its …
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sector inflation expectations has become an essential channel through which this goal is achieved. This evaluation aims to … improve the understanding of how the sensitivity of private sector inflation expectations to macroeconomic surprises in South … anchoring inflation expectations. If a central bank is credible, the financial markets should react less sensitively to …
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The inflation expectations channel of the transmission mechanism is generally recognised as crucial for the … implementation of modern monetary policy. This paper briefly reviews the practices commonly employed for measuring inflation … forward rates (called inflation compensation) on a particular day is then used as a proxy for the market's inflation …
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This paper uses a structural vector-autoregression approach to discuss the cyclicality of fiscal and monetary policy in South Africa since 1994. There is substantial South African literature on this topic, but much disagreement remains. Though not undisputed, there is growing consensus that...
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