This study empirically addresses claims about the effects of strikes on output growth, inflation, and non … any case, this was not contested. Our findings, however, contradict the claims that strikes ensue inflation and …-agriculture employment but has no effect on inflation. The inflation finding suggests that strikes do not cause a wage-price spiral because …

Foreign price shocks have significant effects on functional income distribution and on inflation inequality. By ….g. food prices for low-wage workers). Based on the conflicting-claims inflation literature, we propose a new extension to this … with an inflation-targeting regime. We investigate the impacts of foreign price shocks on income and inflation inequality …

rate both matter for determining inflation and economic activity. …

by the announcement of inflation targeting in 1991 when estimating the effects of monetary policy. For instance, we find …

This paper estimates the output cost of fighting inflation-the sacrifice ratio-for the South African economy using … sacrificed while fighting inflation. Hence, the reserve bank is recommended to sustain an inflation rate within the target range …

This paper develops a model of inflation in an open economy. The model permits analysis of the susceptibility of open … paper arrives at a “structuralist inflation targeting agenda”. Based on a proper conception of inflation dynamics, this … involves “getting inflation targeting right” rather than either accepting mainstream inflation targeting prescriptions or …

In this paper, we examine the extent to which monetary policy should respond to movements in sectoral inflation rates … for different responses to inflation in different sectors outperforms a rule which just targets aggregate CPI, as does a … rule that responds only to non food and energy inflation. However, we find that the optimal sectoral rule only leads to a …

This paper extends a standard New Keynesian model to describe the effects of anticipated shocks to inflation and …