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Social Security is widely believed to protect its recipients from inflation because benefits are indexed to the … which indexing Social Security benefits to the CPI-E, an experimental measure of inflation for the elderly, would change …
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Social Security (SS) programs are integral parts of a generous welfare system instituted in the oil economies during the past quarter century. This paper assesses the future viability of these programs with special reference to the case of Kuwait. A review of the financial structure of the SS...
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This paper reviews the recent development of the funded pension system in the Russian Federation and considers it role in the context of the overall retirement income system. By describing current OECD practices and policy recommendations and comparing them with the current Russian pension...
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This paper investigates the international spillovers of government debt and the associated risk of inflation within a … inflation at the cost of the funded country. In response to these conflicting interests about inflation, inflation risk may rise … with the level of debt in the PAYG country. Higher inflation risk harms both countries. Actually, in contrast to the debt …
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This paper investigates the international spillovers of government debt and the associated risk of inflation within a … inflation at the cost of the funded country. In response to these conflicting interests about inflation, inflation risk may rise … with the level of debt in the PAYG country. Higher inflation risk harms both countries. Actually, in contrast to the debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257504
nonlinear and exhibits an asymmetric pattern: oil price changes have a significant effect on inflation and output when the …
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This paper analyses the impact of oil price shocks on both the GDP growth and on inflation in the economy of Spain and … periods across the sample. Evidence of a diminishing effect of oil price shocks on GDP growth and on inflation is found from … GDP and between 1986 and 1994 and the 2000s for inflation. In the regions, the influence of oil price shocks on the GDP …
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This paper employ monthly data to examine the empirical relationship between oil price shocks and domestic inflation … consumer prices. However, oil price shocks cause inflation to increase while oil price uncertainty does not cause an increase … in inflation. Furthermore, inflation itself causes inflation uncertainty. The findings of this study encourage the …
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floating exchange rates, raising domestic inflation can increase production if credit is rationed. However, there exist … inflation thresholds: increasing inflation beyond the threshold level will reduce domestic output. Instability, indeterminacy of … high rates of domestic inflation- increases the scope for indeterminacy and economic fluctuations. …
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This study focuses on those substantial changes that characterize the shift of Vietnam’s macroeconomic structures and evolution of micro-structural interaction over an important period of 1991-2008. The results show that these events are completely distinct in terms of (i) Economic nature; (ii)...
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