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Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially … functions show that increased uncertainty caused a rise in inflation contemporaneously and for a few months afterward in GAPH … elevated economic uncertainty directly affected inflation dynamics and the incidence of hyperinflation during the interwar …
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Monetary authorities during a hyperinflation occasionally extract seignorage and then abandon the currency. Modelling the central bank as an exhaustible resource extracting monopolist that equates average and marginal profit to extract remaining seignorage by the optimal stopping time explains...
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The drivers of Bitcoin's price fluctuations are studied within a framework based on Cagan's model of hyperinflation. In the model, the price of Bitcoin is driven by stochastic adoption and payments technology, as well as endogenous expectations of future values. The model is estimated with...
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During Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation that ended in 2009, people turned to an illegal round-tripping transaction called “burning money” to preserve purchasing power. The transaction involved illegally acquiring foreign currency at the official rate before converting back to domestic currency in...
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Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially … functions show that increased uncertainty caused a rise in inflation contemporaneously and for a few months afterward in GAPH … elevated economic uncertainty directly affected inflation dynamics and the incidence of hyperinflation during the interwar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915083
This paper analyzes how individual investors respond to inflation. We introduce a unique dataset containing information … on local inflation and security portfolios of more than 2,000 clients of a German bank between 1920 and 1924, covering … the hyperinflation. We find that individual investors buy less (sell more) stocks when facing higher local inflation. This …
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This paper examines the long-run validity of purchasing power parity (PPP) for four high-inflation countries. The …, during the recent floating exchange rate period, PPP holds well, at least in a weak form, in high-inflation countries where …
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Earlier studies of the seigniorage inflation model have found that the high-inflation steady state is not stable under … on stationary hyperinflationary paths near the high-inflation steady state. The hyperinflationary paths are stable under …
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Inflation has been well contained over the last decades in most industrialized countries. This implies, however, that … memories of high inflation are likely to fade, because over time larger parts of the population have never experienced high … inflation, whereas those who have might forget. This paper tests whether memories of high inflation affect agents’ preferences …
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-digit modern hyperinflation." Although this opinion is not widely held, the consensus inflation forecast for 2021 is 47%, a … more worrisome, over the last decade inflation has shown a persistent upward trend and since January 2019 has averaged 45 …
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