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Declining inflation rates might have negative consequences for tax revenues. Phenomena like the inflationary bracket … fiscal drag for OECD countries since 1965. Some considerations on the role of money illusion and indexation in this context … lay the theoretical base followed by a descriptive view on the relation between inflation, growth and tax revenues in the …
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This note shows that full price indexation is not optimal in the long-run in the New Keynesian model. Moreover, we show … that more price stickiness may increase steady state welfare, if price indexation is partial. …
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We consider the effect of money illusion - defined referring to Stevens' ratio estimation function - on the long-run Phillips curve in an otherwise standard New Keynesian model of sticky wages. We show that if households under-perceive real economic variables, negative money...
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Die strategische Asset Allokation ist die für den langfristigen Anlageerfolg wichtigste Entscheidung eines Kapitalanlegers. Eine fundierte Entscheidung erfordert einen mehrstufigen, strukturierten Prozess. Der Anleger muss sich mit den realistischen Chancen des Kapitalmarktes und mit seinen...
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We study how inflation and deflation affect firms' ability to cooperate in an experimental Bertrand duopoly with … differentiated products. We find that there is significantly less cooperation in the treatments with inflation and deflation compared … to the no-inflation treatments. The difficulties to cooperate affect prices and welfare: Depending on the market …
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Ignoring the effects of inflation in retirement planning can have severe consequences for an individual's future … financial well‐being. Yet, many pension funds do not communicate inflation‐related information, presumably for the fear of … prediction, the provision of inflation information could increase pension contributions, because it reveals possible pension …
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This paper estimates a common component in many price series that has an equiproportional effect on all prices. Changes in this component can be interpreted as changes in the value of the numeraire since, by definition, they leave all relative prices unchanged. The first aim of the paper is to...
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line with empirical evidence, the model predicts a short-term inflation-output trade-off, a liquidity effect …
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We use a life cycle model of consumption and portfolio choice to study the effects of social security on the investment decisions of households for the European case. Our model is mainly based on the one developed by Cocco, Gomes, and Maenhout (2005). We extend it by unemployment risk using...
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An economy in which deposit-taking banks of a Diamond/ Dybvig style and an asset market coexist is modelled. Firstly, within this framework we characterize distinct financial systems depending on the fraction of households with direct investment opportunities that are less efficient than those...
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