Purpose – Similar to real estate, infrastructure investments are regarded as providing a good inflation hedge and … inflation protection. However, the empirical literature on infrastructure and inflation is scarce. Therefore, the purpose of … this paper is to investigate the short- and long-term inflation-hedging characteristics, as well as the inflation …

considers an optimal investment problem of a scheme member facing stochastic inflation under the Markowitz mean …

imported crude oil lead to domestic inflation in Japan has validity. In a model where real GDP growth, money stock growth, and … greater the domestic inflation rate. This impact is exacerbated the greater the percentage of oil consumption that is imported … elevate the domestic inflation rate. Hence, it appears that this foundation of the monetary authority in Japan has validity …

equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …

This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …

liquidity trap if inflation is higher when a bubble bursts, then higher inflation is preferable. This paper suggests the … monetary policy objective can be enhanced by shifting it from explicit or implicit targeting of low and stable inflation to … explicit targeting of moderate and stable inflation. …

The classical definition of inflation refers to increasing the quantity of money in circulation. However, in everyday … language, inflation is seen rather through the effects of monetary expansion, i.e. increasing prices. Therefore, the term … “inflation” generates a semantic confusion, for which could be responsible the omnipresence of consumer price index (CPI) in the …

Inflation is mainly a monetary phenomenon, but it has important consequences on the real economy, mainly because the … price system does not meet anymore its role of proper allocation of resources. In most of the developed countries, inflation …