that our "effective" approach is superior when it comes to assessing the impact of exchange rate regimes on inflation … trading partners. Using our measure of effective exchange rate regimes in a standard empirical analysis of inflation … associated with significantly lower inflation rates. This challenges the established view that soft pegs do not matter - or are …

We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil and the data available permit us to cover the … robust for different estimators and financial development measures?suggest that inflation presented deleterious effects on … Brazil by high rates of inflation, have detrimental effects to financial development, a variable that is important for …

This paper analyzes the link between inflation and democracy in developing countries. In order to address the … positive causal relationship between inflation and democracy. It appears that democracy increases inflation because democracy …, Ghana, and Sri Lanka better illustrate the result relating to the relationship between inflation and democracy in my sample. …

We test the menu cost model of Ball and Mankiw (1994, 1995) on data from the inflation and deflation periods in Japan … during both inflation and deflation, is strongly supported. The data are less clear on, but does not reject, the hypothesis … that the parameter on the standard deviation changes sign between inflation and deflation periods. …

across the sample. Evidence in favour of a diminishing effect of oil price shocks on the output and inflation is found from … in the last part of the 1990s and, especially, for the CPI inflation in the 2000s. The most outstanding result is that … the oil price movements could explain at least some of the recent inflation, the main difference between these outcomes …

This paper focuses on the empirically observed relationship between demographic change and inflation and explores the … demographic change and inflation dynamics. We are the first to formally disentangle the two components of demographic change …: population size and structure, and determine how they separately affect inflation. We find that changes in population size are a …