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Inflation in Hong Kong, SAR - in search of a transmission mechanism

Genberg, Hans (contributor); Pauwels, Laurent (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Inflation in Hong Kong, SAR - in Search of a Transmission Mechanism

Genberg, Hans; Pauwels, Laurent - 2022

Inflation in a country with a currency board is usually believed to be highly dependent on external factors. Important … questions for understanding the dynamics of inflation are (i) how best to measure these factors and (ii) how to model the … foreign inflation does not adequately capture external influences on inflation in Hong Kong. Second, the paper shows that …

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Pandemics and economic growth : evidence from the 1968 H3N2 influenza

Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2020

We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates as a proxy for the country-specific severity of the pandemic, we find that the average mortality rate (0.0062% per pandemic wave) was associated with declines in consumption...

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