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Core inflation: a review of some conceptual issues
Wynne, Mark A. - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas - 1999
This paper reviews various approaches to the measurement of core inflation that have been proposed in recent years. The objective is to determine whether the European Central Bank (ECB) should pay special attention to one or other of these measures in assessing inflation developments in the euro...
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Economic Survey 2005-06, Chapter 5
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance - 2006
Prices and Food Management …
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Wages of War, Wages of Peace: Food prices and unskilled labour pay in Afghanistan, 1996-2002
Maletta, Hector - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2002
This paper contains the main results of a FAO study on staple food prices and real wages in Afghanistan during the … registered in food prices. However, the fluctuations were mostly due to changes in the value of currency, i.e. in the exchange … rate. Food prices in dollars have been remarkably stable, especially during the years 2001 and 2002. During the war years …
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Agricultural Export Performance in Africa: Elements of comparison with Asia
Ngaruko, Floribert - Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations - 2003
This study addresses the strategies and the factors of agricultural export performance in Africa compared with other regions, especially Asia. Regarding the figures of agricultural export performance across these regions, the study finds that agricultural export commodities, either primary or...
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Experimental economics: putting markets under the microscope
Taylor, Herb - In: Business Review (1988) Mar, pp. 15-25
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Price signaling: does it ever work?
Sergius Koku, Paul - In: Journal of Consumer Marketing 12 (1995) 1, pp. 45-49
Alpert et al. ′s (1993) study on the relationship between objective product quality and price is both interesting and important. It continues the tradition of “borrowing” relevant theories from other disciplines to explicate problems faced in marketing. However, some issues raised...
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Regulating prices and profits in utility industries in low‐income economies
Parker, David; Kirkpatrick, Colin - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 18 (2005) 3, pp. 241-255
Purpose – The aim of the paper is to examine alternative methods of regulating prices and/or profits of privatised … economics of regulation literature has favoured the use of a price cap over rate of return or cost of service regulation because …
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Professor Modigliani on price controls: the baleful influence of the perfectly competitive model
Block, Walter - In: International Journal of Social Economics 22 (1995) 5, pp. 27-30
. Further, that the economics profession is well advised to reject the perfectly competitive model, and instead embrace one of …
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Jean‐Baptiste Say (1767‐1832)
Spithoven, A.H.G.M - In: International Journal of Social Economics 23 (1996) 7, pp. 39-48
Postulates that politicians and economists again seem to believe in Say’s “law of markets” ( la loi des “débouchés” ). Discusses this law and its applicability in the present. States that supply does not always create the right amount of demand. Say’s law has its flaws because of...
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Northwest history. Lumber industry & by-products. Prices and market conditions. 1923-03-17
1923
Admits fixing lumber prices. - "Question of jail or poorhouse" in 1916 for mill men, says Bloedel. - At federal hearing … trade commission that the company controlled prices by coercion, declared that "it was a question of the jail or the …
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