This paper examines the causal links between productivity growth and two price series given by domestic inflation and … shows that domestic inflation has a small but adverse effect on mining productivity growth, thus providing some empirical … support for Australia's 'inflation first' monetary policy, at least with respect to the mining sector. Inflation in mineral …

-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 …

equilibrium to achieve a simple, linear model, that only depends on inflation, the output gap, and the interest rate, in the case … inflation dynamics is crucial. Because of the controversial debate on the importance of expectations, the consequences of … central banks should react stronger to changes in inflation and output under uncertainty. Furthermore, it is shown that …

Drives Inflation. Chapter IV introduces a second model of a corrupt central banker, one who sells inside information … general seems to increase the inflation rate. My model of the corrupt central banker provides a new explanation of this effect …, that is, that corruption leads to a higher rate of inflation and/or higher seigniorage, will be tested for a cross …

their recent macroeconomic behaviour; (ii) study the impact of certain decisions of policymakers on GDP, inflation and other …

forecasts of output and inflation. The suite consists of a benchmark model, that includes output, prices and interest rate … economy. Moreover, the proposed SBVAR models are used to provide forecasts of output and inflation conditional on diferent …