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Räumliche Preisvergleiche: Aggregationskonzepte und Forschungsperspektiven

Auer, Ludwig - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 6 (2012) 1, pp. 27-56

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...

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Effects of Energy Price Changes on Russian Economy

Suni, Paavo - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 2, pp. 9-15

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Putting the New Keynesian Model to a Test

Straub, Roland; Peersman, Gert - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

In recent years, New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (NK DSGE) models have become increasingly popular in the academic literature and in policy analysis. However, the success of these models in reproducing the dynamic behavior of an economy following structural shocks is still...

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The Plutocratic Bias in the CPI; Evidence From Spain

Castillo, Javier Ruiz; Ley, Eduardo; Izquierdo, Mario - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

We define the plutocratic bias as the difference between inflation measured according to the current official CPI and a democratic index in which all households receive the same weight. We estimate that during the 1990s the plutocratic bias in Spain amounts to 0.055 percent per year. However,...

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Capital Flows and Financial Stability; Monetary Policy and Macroprudential Responses

Unsal, D. Filiz - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

The resumption of capital flows to emerging market economies since mid 2009 has posed two sets of interrelated challenges for policymakers: (i) to prevent capital flows from exacerbating overheating pressures and consequent inflation, and (ii) to minimize the risk that prolonged periods of easy...

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Chile; Institutions and Policies Underpinning Stability and Growth

Kalter, Eliot; Phillips, Steven; Singh, Manmohan; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper presents the primary institutions and economic policies that have led to Chileâ€™s remarkable record of stability and growth over the past twenty years. The core of this policy stance is the combination of fiscal discipline and an open trade policy regime, together with carefully...

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Urban Congestion Pricing – Economists and Practitioners Join Hands

Rave, Tilmann - In: CESifo DICE Report 3 (2005) 3, pp. 3-4

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The Nature of Rural Infrastructure: Problems and Prospects

Mitra, Siddhartha; Bery, Suman; B, Gupta D; Krishna, Reeta - eSocialSciences - 2010

This paper looks at rural infrastructure facilities in India, the lack of which is demonstrated to be an impediment to …

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Inflation, Macroeconomic Policy and Hunger: A Variation on a Theme by C. Rangarajan

Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This paper re-emphasizes the importance of price stability as a tool for macroeconomic policy and make it more specific by considering a typically (unanticipated) advantage of stabilizing the Consumer Price Index (CPI). I briefly review the recent economic growth performance of the Indian...

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Measures of Inflation in India

White, Graham - In: RBA Bulletin (2014) September, pp. 39-46

India has experienced persistently high inflation in recent years, despite a period of below-trend economic growth. As … India are the wholesale price index (WPI) and the consumer price index (CPI). Although the WPI has traditionally been the … most widely used measure for assessing inflationary pressures, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently conducted a review …

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