In a previous study of US city inflation, I emphasized the temporal regularities of urban price inflation. But, despite … these identified regularities, it is apparent that the process of inflation is rarely so regular and so systematic …. Unanticipated shocks in three components, energy food, and housing, dominate the post-1950 record of US inflation. Analysis of …

Established in 1988, the Shingo Prize for Operational Excellence recognises organisations in the USA, Mexico and Canada …

effect). This study has practical implications for regulators, corporations and investors, both in the USA and abroad. …

-separability of the utility function, inflation aversion, nominal transaction frictions). The monograph is organized as follows … market share competition with the assumption that agent?s behavior is characterized by inflation aversion. Chapter IV is … devoted to the GMM estimation of crucial parameters of the inflation-aversion model of the previous chapter. A model featuring …

explain the development of inflation dynamics and the formation process of inflation expectations of households respectively. We …

involving changes in the inflation and monetary-policy regimes: the move to floating exchange rates following the breakdown of … throughout the industrialized world a decade later. In the case of the float, inflation which had been rising since the mid-1960s …. Following the shifts to less expansive domestic policy, inflation peaked in most of those same countries and has continued to …