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In this paper, we examine how economic shocks affect the distribution of household inflation expectations. We show that … the dynamics of households' expected inflation distributions are driven by three distinctive functional shocks, which … influence the expected inflation distribution through disagreement, level shift and ambiguity. Linking these functional shocks …
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This paper reviews the post-Keynesian theory of inflation against the background of the simultaneous rise in inflation …-are discussed. The paper applies the latter to elucidate recent inflation trends propelled by increasing imported energy prices and … then rising mark-ups. The effects of inflation-targeting central bank interest policies versus a post-Keynesian alternative …
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accounts of profit inflation, wherein U.S. firms' market power allowed them to maintain - and, for some firms, increase - their …
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This paper reviews the post-Keynesian theory of inflation against the background of the simultaneous rise in inflation … discussed. The paper applies the latter to elucidate recent inflation trends propelled by increasing imported energy prices and … then rising mark-ups. The effects of inflation-targeting central bank interest policies versus a post-Keynesian alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015057214
there is a significant backward looking element in inflation behaviour. This cyclical instability can be mitigated if fiscal … policy in each member country reacts to inflation differences, but it can be aggravated if fiscal feedback on debt is too …
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against macroeconomic shocks to the government budget. Whether this goal is better accomplished by nominal or inflation … markets and the risk of default. We argue that the role of inflation-indexed debt as a hedge against demand and inflation …
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This paper investigates a perception in the political debates as to what extent poor countries are affected by price movements in the global commodity markets. To test this perception, we use the case of India to establish in a standard SVAR model that global food prices influence aggregate...
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Time-varying exchange rate pass-through effects to domestic prices under fixed euro exchange rate perspective represent one of the most challenging implications of the common currency. The problem is even more crucial when examining crisis related redistributive effects associated with relative...
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aggregate inflation and the higher-order moments of the distribution of relative price changes. Our empirical findings confirm … explanatory variable for the inflation rate. Further, the skewness measure also helps to explain shifts in the Phillips curve …
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A major challenge for monetary policy has been predicting how exchange rate movements will impact inflation. We propose …
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