Politicians and scientists have a strong interest in reliable regional and international comparisons of productivity, income, wages, and social benefits. Such comparisons require meaningful indicators of the regional and international price levels. The computation of such indicators utilizes...

We study a flexible price IS/LM economy in which the money supply and interest rate play the role of monetary policy instruments. If the central bank sets the nominal interest rate, the ambiguity in the price level is manifested. However, the equilibrium price level is permissible, if the...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between fiscal deficits, money supply, and price level in India during the period 1960-61 to 1999-2000. Using vector autoregression (VAR) econometric methodology, which allows variables to be treated as potentially endogenous, the study finds that...

This paper seeks to improve our understanding of the behaviour of wholesale price index (WPI) of 24 selected food products in India over a long period of time. The hypothesis of declining trend in prices is not found for all commodities although we do find that price of food grains exhibit a...

Value added tax is the most harmonized tax within the single internal market of the European Communities. Although Community law defines the basic constraints of the VAT legislative form in the Member States, Directive No. 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax, as amended, leaves a...

In this paper, the distinction between nominal and real income is highlighted by positing the existence of an imaginary “real dollar store.” In this store, all items are sold at a price of one dollar in the base year and the price of each is indexed to the cost of living. Hence, such...

E31, E43, N01.

The new member countries of the European Union professed on the day of their entry to adopt the single European currency Euro without undue delays. There arise two quite fundamental questions within this context, which are: “When will they make this step?” and “Will they be able, in this...