Using 1970-85 sectoral data for the OECD we find that inflation in nontradable good exceeds inflation in tradables. We … prime causes of the differential inflation. In addition, disinflation attempts and the exchange rate regime appear to have … exerted significant influence on the relative inflation rate …

general validity: (a) deficits lead to inflation and stopping inflation requires elimination of deficits; (b) a major effect … of inflation is a large shift of the tax burden from capital to labor; and (c) shocks to labor supply, such as massive …

This paper analyzes, in a public finance context, how the optimal use of the inflation and the consumption tax is … by 1992. Two main questions are addressed: first, how the constraint of having to share a common inflation tax, in order … to preserve fixed-exchange rates, influences the optimal policy decisions concerning the inflation tax; secondly, how the …

, together with the policy stance on exchange and interest rates, led to a significant feedback from inflation to money supply …Yugoslav inflation unfolded as a classic wage-price-exchange rate spiral through the 1970s and 1980s and exploded into … hyperinflation in the last quarter of 1989. This paper examines the process of monetary accommodation of inflation, the behavior of …

inflation is related to the output gap, as well as to the money supply and the terms of trade. We conclude that the gap model …There is considerable evidence from industrial countries that the output gap is an important determinant of inflation …

The robust negative correlation between openness and inflation found in cross-country data for the 1970s and 1980s has … disappeared in the 1990s. There is now a strong negative correlation of inflation with per capita GDP, as higher-income countries … that floating exchange rate regimes are associated with inflation rates at least 10 percent a year higher than pegged …

transmission of inflation from India. Because the Nepali currency is pegged to the Indian rupee and the two countries share an open … border, price developments in Nepal would be expected to mirror to those in India. The results show that inflation in India … and inflation in Nepal tend to converge in the long run. Our estimates indicate that the passthrough of inflation from …

This paper examines some of the factors that have been influential in keeping inflation low in the United States during … role of labor costs and import prices in determining price inflation …