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In this paper we evaluate inflation persistence in the U.S. using long range monthly and annual data. The importance of … inflation persistence is crucial to policy authorities and market participants, since the level of inflation persistence … found in the relevant literature, we evaluate inflation persistence through the nonparametric Hurst exponent within both a …
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In this paper we evaluate inflation persistence in the U.S. using long range monthly and annual data. The importance of … inflation persistence is crucial to policy authorities and market participants, since the level of inflation persistence … generating process, in order to enhance the robustness of conclusions. Overall, we find that inflation persistence is high from …
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The existing literature on the theoretical relationship between the rate of inflation and real stock prices in an … economy has shown varied predictions about the long run effects of inflation on real stock prices. In this paper, we present … that, in the long run real stock prices are invariant to permanent changes in the rate of inflation. The impulse responses …
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This study investigates the asymmetric and time-varying causality between inflation and inflation uncertainty in South … features of inflation series simultaneously by measuring inflation uncertainty as the conditional variance of inflation …’s hypothesis. This implies that past information on inflation can help improve the one-step-ahead prediction of inflation …
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This paper analyses the empirical relationship between inflation and growth using a panel data estimation technique … time levels, we find that a statistically significant negative relationship exists between inflation and growth for the … inflation rates above the critical threshold levels of 9% and 30% which are endogenously determined. Furthermore, we remedy the …
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We try and detect whether there exists a threshold level of inflation for the US economy over 1801-2013, beyond which … semiparametric (SNP-IV) methods to obtain inflation thresholds for the United States. The results suggest that the relationship … between growth and inflation is hump shaped—that higher levels of inflation reduce growth more. Our results consistently show …
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The conduct of inflation targeting is heavily dependent on accurate inflation forecasts. Non-linear models have … African infl ation by means of non-linear models and using a long historical dataset of seasonally-adjusted monthly inflation …, given the fact that 1969:10 marks the beginning of a protracted rising trend in South African inflation data, we estimate …
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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 …
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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 …
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The paper develops a short-run model of a small open financially repressed economy characterized by unorganized money markets, intermediate good imports, capital mobility and flexible exchange rates. The analysis shows that financial liberalization, in the form of increased rate of interest on...
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