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We study investors' perceptions of inflation through the lens of a high-frequency event study and document that they … have a stagflationary view of the world. In response to higher-than-expected inflation, investors expect firms' nominal … even decline, with increases in nominal yields offset by larger increases in inflation expectations. Consistent with a …
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The dominant view of inflation holds that it is macroeconomic in origin and must always be tackled with macroeconomic … tightening. In contrast, we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers' inflation that derives from … trying to fend off real wage declines in the conflict stage. We argue that such sellers' inflation generates a general price …
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We analyse the incidence of endogenous entry and firm TFP-heterogeneity on the response of aggregate inflation to … distribution of firms in Spain. We then compare the inflation response to technology, interest rate and entry cost shocks, among … others. We find that structures in which large (more productive) firms predominate tend to deliver more muted inflation …
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inflation rates experienced in developed countries during the 1990s …
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In many countries, market power in goods markets has increased over the last decades. To examine the implications for monetary policy, we present a menu-cost model with endogenous markups. This model rationalizes the observed increases in market power via productivity increases for some firms....
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The Dalio's Economic Market Cycles theory seems to be a proof of a long-standing philosophic theory of civilisation … cycles, which appeared around the XVIIth century in Europe. The Civilisation Cycles theory suggests that each human …-100 years for a big Economic (Market) Cycle?In the following, I would like to give my understanding of the Dalio's theory of …
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An exogenous oil price shock raises inflation and contracts output, similar to a negative productivity shock. In the … standard New Keynesian model, however, this does not generate a tradeoff between inflation and output gap volatility: under a … strict inflation targeting policy, the output decline is exactly equal to the efficient output contraction in response to the …
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Declining inflation in many countries over the past few decades at the same time as rising global competition has led … to a debate on the importance of globalisation for domestic inflation. This paper explores the implications of global … value chain (GVC) integration and market contestability for inflation using a range of industry-level and micro-data sources …
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We construct a model of a firm competing for market share in a customer market and making investments in physical capital. The firm is financially constrained and there are implementation lags in investment. Our model predicts that product prices should depend on costs and competitors' prices,...
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