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During the last two decades, the world has experienced a remarkable process of disinflation, with average inflation … rates in industrialized countries falling by 10 percentage points and an even sharper decline of the mean rate of inflation … in developing countries. Parallel to the decline in inflation rates, a tremendous increase in economic integration …
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This paper characterizes the relationship between monetary aggregates, inflation and economic activity in Switzerland …, have been followed by persistently higher inflation and output with the usual monetary policy transmission lags. Money and … exchange rate fluctuations can explain the major inflation developments in Switzerland over the past four decades. …
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This paper proposes a simple explanation for the frequent appearance of a price puzzle in VARs designed for monetary policy analysis. It suggests that the best method of solving the puzzle implies a close connection between theory and empirics rather than the introduction of a commodity price....
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This study investigates the disconnect between falling agricultural commodity prices and persistent food inflation by … analyzes the impact of global crops, fertilizer, and oil prices on domestic inflation and explores the asymmetries in the pass … inflation compared to supply-driven shocks, with country-specific characteristics shaping these responses. A historical …
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Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied both theoretically and empirically. Superstatistics is presented as a natural theoretical framework for productivity. The demand index ê is proposed within this framework as a new business index. Japanese productivity data covering...
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Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied within the framework of statistical physics and the result is compared with the outcome of the empirical analysis. Superstatistics is presented as a natural theoretical framework for the productivity distribution. The demand index ê is...
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Contemporary observers viewed the recession that began in the summer of 1929 as nothing extraordinary. Recent analyses have shown that the subsequent large deflation was econometrically forecastable, implying that a driving force in the depression was the high expected real interest rates faced...
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We quantify the role of contractionary monetary shocks and wage rigidities in the U.S. Great Contraction. While the average economy-wide real wage varied little over 1929-33, real wages rose significantly in some industries. We calibrate a two-sector model with intermediates to the 1929 U.S....
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We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...
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We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of international trade, extending the idea to the open economy. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or...
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