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explain the development of inflation dynamics and the formation process of inflation expectations of households respectively. We …
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An evaluation of the existing hydrothermal energy economics related quantitative studies is provided. The objective is to present the similarities and differences in methodology and assumptions, and explain the impact of these differences on the energy price estimates. A brief summary of the...
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A tool is presented to quantify the risks of geothermal projects, the Geothermal Probabilistic Cost Model (GPCM). The GPCM model is used to evaluate a geothermal reservoir for a binary-cycle electric plant at Heber, California. Three institutional aspects of the geothermal risk which can shift...
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) is privatizing the processing of hazardous and radioactive tank waste at the Hanford Site in Washington State. As part of the privatization process, a request for proposals describing the conditions and DOE`s expectations for contractor performance and...
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economic variable occurs that has no direct relation to the contemporaneous behavior of the variables that theory suggests it … involving changes in the inflation and monetary-policy regimes: the move to floating exchange rates following the breakdown of … throughout the industrialized world a decade later. In the case of the float, inflation which had been rising since the mid-1960s …
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This paper presents new non-linear regression estimates of the relationship between inflation and economic growth for … inflation is associated with moderate gains in GDP growth up to a roughly 15 – 18 percent inflation threshold. However, the … at all with either the inflation coefficient or our estimated turning point. With the middle income countries, we return …
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This paper examines the question of whether inflation targeting monetary policy is an appropriate framework for sub …-Saharan African countries. The paper presents an overview of inflation targeting, reviews the justification for the regime, and … summarizes some major critiques. Monetary policy responses to inflation depend on the source of inflationary pressures. Therefore …
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Why do dynamic inconsistencies in monetary policy exist? In this paper we present a traditional model with output inefficiencies, but we allow for monetary policy to be influenced by the various constituencies in the economy, that pressure the Congress to in turn pressure the central bank to...
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sources of the rise and fall of the Great Inflation from the late 1960s to the early 1980s and of the Great Moderation of … periods is attributed to the time-varying volatility of shocks. The history for inflation is more nuanced, as a more vigorous … stand against it would have reduced inflation in the 1970s, but not completely eliminated it. In addition, they find that …
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The importance of analysing inflation sources and dynamics in Bulgaria is imposed by (i) the long run process of price … and inflation convergence to the Euro area and (ii) by the Currency Board operating in the country. In this study we make … explanation of inflation (or dual inflation) has acquired both academic recognition and popularity in practice in the recent years …
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