stability has been fostered by improved monetary policy and by associated changes in the behaviour of inflation, which has …

the USA. The first step of the analysis shows how far countries differ regarding immigrants? educational disadvantage. In …

This paper examines the long-run effects of supply shocks (such as oil shocks) on inflation in the United States. The … persistence of supply shocks in U.S. inflation fell considerably during the period of Volcker's disinflation (1979-1982). My … the behavior of inflation expectations-agents expected shocks to persist in the pre-Volcker period, but not in the post …

This paper examines five problems with the inflation indexing procedures used by the Social Security Administration of … the United States in taking inflation into account when calculating Old Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) Benefits … indexing. As a result of Problems #2 and #4 your OASI check will be larger if wage inflation happens to be extra high in your …

States in taking inflation into account when calculating Old Age and Survivor Insurance (OASI) Benefits. Because of the … receives an annual benefit more than $1,800 larger than would have been generated with full indexing. While the inflation …-run financial instability for the OASI trust fund in periods of substantial inflation or deflation. They make the percentage …

Using the statistical technique of fuzzy clustering, regimes of inflation and unemployment are explored for the United … inflation/unemployment space. There is considerable similarity across the countries in both the regimes themselves and in the … timings of the transitions between regimes. However, the typical rates of inflation and unemployment experienced in the …

A key application of long memory time series models concerns inflation. Long memory implies that shocks have a long … such level shifts are not unlikely for inflation, where the shifts may be caused by sudden oil price shocks, we examine … exaggerated. Our main findings are that apparent longmemory is quite resistant to level shifts, although for a few inflation rates …

idiosyncratic components, we study the regime dependence of the inflation-RPV relation in Argentina and the USA. Under High …Using frequency domain techniques to separate short and long run dynamics and decomposing inflation into its common and … inflation, strong long-run comovement between RPV and Inflation is found for both economies, that extends to the short run …