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strategies may be well described by Taylor rules with a time-varying inflation target, a time-varying natural rate of … benchmark model that does not account for changes in trend inflation and trend unemployment …
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The removal of the lower bound on the EUR/CHF exchange rate in January 2015 provides a unique setting to study the implications of a large and sudden appreciation in an otherwise stable macroeconomic environment. Using transaction-level data on non-durable goods purchases by Swiss consumers, we...
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In this paper we analyze statistics derived from the cross-wavelet transform of inflation differentials and exchange … measure, based on singular value decomposition, that shows which countries have significantly similar inflation differential …
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The removal of the lower bound on the EUR/CHF exchange rate in January 2015 provides a unique setting to study the implications of a large and sudden appreciation in an otherwise stable macroeconomic environment. Using transaction-level data on non-durable goods purchases by Swiss consumers, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900831
inflation will be higher in countries where prices are initially low. Price level convergence thus provides a potential … explanation for recent cross-country differences in European inflation, a worrisome development under the ECBs "one … how much of the recent divergence of national inflation rates can be explained by price level convergence. I show that …
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. Previous literature has highlighted the role of an economy's "structure" - such as its inflation volatility, inflation rate …, forecasts predicting how a given exchange rate movement will impact inflation at a specific point in time should take into …
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The paper's objective is to examine whether the Indian Rupee was fairly valued as of end March 2015. First, the movements of the trade weighted real effective exchange rate (REER) of the Rupee are tracked over the last ten years. Next, the underpinnings of the Harrod-Balassa-Samuelson effect,...
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currency rationing. This in turn ignites inflation due to external bottlenecks since many sectors face supply constraints as … growing distributive conflict and fuels inflation further, as workers oppose to the lowering of real wages. Moreover, the … parallel market devaluation-inflation spiral, which threatens to turn into hyperinflation. Nevertheless, we argue that …
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This paper describes research comparing the response of inflation to changes in exchange rate competitiveness in … various regions of the world. The paper first presents evidence that an empirical relationship between the rate of inflation … possible to achieve low inflation and a high export competitiveness simultaneously. The paper then demonstrates that the …
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During the pandemic, many countries saw a slight and ephemeral decline decrease in inflation at the beginning, followed …’ currencies have faced continuous depreciation. This study aims to examine the relationship between changes in inflation and … appreciation of the U.S. dollar is linked to an acceleration in global inflation. The infection rate and GDP per capita have a …
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