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[...]This article explores the inflation puzzle andinvestigates whether compensation has acted as either atemporary … restraint on inflation or as the underlying sourceof a new inflation regime.2 After reviewing the recent behavior of inflation …, we specify and estimate a traditionalprice-inflation Phillips curve model over the 1965-96period. Our results show that …
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BEA’s national economic statistics provide a comprehensive view of U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. These statistics are best known by summary measures such as gross domestic product (GDP), corporate profits, personal income and spending,...
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Reform of the welfare state is at the centre of political debate. In a new book, CASEmembers analyse changes in social policies over the last twenty-five years, trends inspending, outcomes of policies, and impacts on institutions and families.The stereotypes of both left and right are wrong....
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The trends and consequences of terrorist activities are often captured bycounting the number of incidents and casualties. More recently, the effects of terroristacts on various aspects of the economy have been analyzed. These costs aresurveyed and put in perspective. As economic consequences are...
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of this paper is the analysis of inflation risk of European real estate securities. An overview of the institutional …
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examine the relevance of the cost channel for inflation dynamics in G7 countries. Since firms’ costs of working capital … inflation responses to monetary policy shocks, and can even lead to inverse inflation responses, when the cost channel is …
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to consumer price inflation in an international comparisonover the period from 1990 to 2004. The analysis focuses on the …
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difficulties: the calculation, the verification and the inflation problem. This article focuses on the inflation problem. It is … shown that the inflation problem can be resolved by modifying the individual ageing provisions in a special way. Future …
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Episodes of unanticipated inflation reduce the real value of nominal claims and thus redistribute wealth from lenders to … borrowers. In this study, we consider redistribution as a channel for aggregate and welfare effects of inflation. We model an … inflation episode as an unanticipated shock to the wealth distribution in a quantitative overlapping-generations model of the U …
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future changes in the rate of inflation. More recently, this relationship has been strengthened through the introduction of …-of-sample forecasting exercise. We find that three-regime models that allow for shifts in the inflation risk premium or real interest rate (or … both) are the most promising forecasting models of inflation when using the term structure. …
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