We verify whether cocoa prices could be a source of inflation in five countries of the West African region within a … influence of cocoa prices on consumer price inflation is strong and statistically significant. The influence of the budget … remittances enables us to examine the effect of an international capital flow variable on inflation. The results reveal that the …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

We introduce a dynamic panel threshold model to shed new light on the impact of inflation on long-term economic growth …. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel-data set including 124 countries during the period from 1950 to 2004. For … industrialized countries, our results confirm the inflation targets of about 2% set by many central banks. For non …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

In the context of persisting sustainability challenges in the Global Cocoa-Chocolate Chain (GCCC), sustainability … responses transform the local economy. Taking the case of sustainability certification in the cocoa industry of Ghana, this …-linked pressures. In the Ghanaian cocoa sector, t sustainability certification became a key tool of competition for farmers among local …

The paper investigates the extent to which the dollar/sterling exchange rate fluctuations affect coffee and cocoa …

Theoretical models point at various channels of the impact of inflation on corporate investment. This article attempts … corporate investment and inflation on the sample of 21 OECD countries in the years 1960-2005. The obtained negative relationship … this relationship: the marginal effect on corporate investment is higher at inflation rates between 3 and 5.5 per cent …

We study sovereign bond yields in OECD countries with a dynamic panel by checking for cross-section dependence …; assessing panel cointegration; and estimating panel error-correction models. The results show that markets consider budgetary … and external imbalances and inflation as relevant determinants of sovereign yields. …

that fix exchange rates and those that target inflation. Inflation targeting is a more durable policy; no country has yet … been forced to abandon an inflation target, while many have abandoned fixed exchange rates. Indeed, even though inflation … targeting began only in 1990, the duration of inflation targeting regimes is at least as long as, or longer than all alternative …

Correlations of inflation with the growth rate of money increase when data are averaged over longer time periods …. Correlations of inflation with the growth of money also are higher when high-inflation as well as low-inflation countries are … included in the analysis. We show that serial correlation in the underlying inflation rate ties these two observations together …