devaluation of the US mechanical rate against inflation since the Copyright Act of 1976. As Congress and the CARP Tribunal are … ultimately involved in setting terms, the implication is that songwriters and their publishers are losing power in the USA … against the record labels. For a variety of reasons, the phenomenon seems to be particular to the USA. It has also gone …

determinant in the go through channel affecting the prices of final goods and services and inflation in the USA. I test several …The paper analyses the impact of the labour costs and import costs on the prices of final goods in the USA during the … goods in last 50 years in the USA. …

protection against inflation, that is, whether they deliver positive real returns over a given holding period. …