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Currently, many monetary and fiscal policy measures are aimed at preventing the financial market meltdown that started in the US subprime sector and has spread worldwide as a great recession. Although some slow recovery appears to be on the horizon, it is worthwhile exploring the fragility and...
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In the last months, the world's economies were confronted with the largest economic recession since the Great Depression. The occurrence of a worldwide financial market meltdown as a consequence originally stemming from of the crisis in the US subprime housing sector was only prevented by...
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This study revisits and tests empirically the Portfolio Theory of Inflation (PTI), which analyzes how the effectiveness … (Bossone, The portfolio theory of inflation and policy (in)effectiveness, 2019). The PTI shows that when an economy is heavily … and policies aimed to stimulate output growth dissipate into domestic currency depreciation and higher inflation, with …
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literature. The model is applied to the analysis of inflation dynamics. Allowing for heavy tails leads to significant … well-calibrated density forecasts. These results are obtained using the US CPI inflation rate and are confirmed by other … inflation indicators as well as the CPI of the other G7 countries …
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how the two interact. The model is applied to the analysis of inflation dynamics. Allowing for heavy tails leads to … obtain well-calibrated density forecasts. These results are obtained using US CPI inflation rate and are confirmed for other … indicators of inflation as well as the CPI inflation of the other G7 countries. Finally, we show how the proposed approach …
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What is the probability of high inflation; how high, when? These questions are important to all investors since even … characterizes this as The War On Savers. Higher inflation is possible, at 4% or more, with even worse effects. There are heated … debates about the probability and timing of high inflation, but our review of the extensive literature reveals no reliable way …
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We document a substantial increase in downside risk to US economic growth over the last 30 years. By modelling secular trends and cyclical changes of the predictive density of GDP growth, we find an accelerating decline in the skewness of the conditional distributions, with significant,...
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choose a path for the inflation rate that ends with a non-zero value. Such a property is relevant in a wide range of … youth structure. In this setting, profit flows are discounted more heavily than utility flows and the optimal inflation … long-run inflation rate in models with firm entry and exit and in environments with search and matching frictions in the …
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