This paper describes the IMF's projections and estimates of St. Vincent and the Grenadines on prices and wages, GDP by … economic activity at current factor cost and by type of expenditure at current prices, petroleum consumption and unit values …

Conventional wisdom suggests that producer prices are more rigid than consumer prices and therefore play less of a role … for the producer price index, we find that producer prices for finished goods and services in fact exhibit roughly the … same rigidity as consumer prices that include sales and substantially less rigidity than consumer prices that exclude them …

In this paper, we derive two new measures of international relative prices for Norway. Developments in these new …

estimates are potentially inefficient and open to omitted variable bias for two reasons. First, they use average prices across … outlets as the left-hand-side variable. Second, quality-adjusted prices of non-comparable replacements, required when products …

goods. For example, inflation in intermediate goods prices rose from 2.6 percent annually in the first half of 1994 to 7 … less than 3 percent. Many analysts are concerned that recent increases in the prices of crude and intermediate goods may be … expected to move through the production chain, leading to increases in consumer prices. A review of basic economic theory …

This paper reexamines whether producer prices help predict consumer prices, focusing on model stability and the … for a simple form of instability, however, fails to improve the predictive power of producer prices. Even in models using … prices do not help to forecast consumer prices. …