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The purpose of this paper is to determine the main causes of the Belarus high inflation during the period 1996 … rate. They are also consistent with shocks-and accommodation view of the inflation process. These findings, consistent with … some recent studies of inflation in transition economies, imply that exchange rate and wage policies, in addition to the …
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compensate resulting losses of purchasing power only prolong the inflationary phase. Anchored inflation expectations are key to … keeping the inflation process temporary. While this clearly falls under the responsibility of the monetary authorities, fiscal …
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Fiscal support measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic varied in their targeted beneficiaries. Relying on variability across 10 large economies, we study differences in the inflationary effects of fiscal support measures targeting consumers or businesses. Because conventional measures of...
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Canada's inflation rate rose from 3.1 percent in June 2021 to 8.1 percent one year later. What is behind this rapid … rising inflation. We find a few items dominate, especially energy and items sensitive to oil prices. To separate demand- from … supply-driven inflation, we use detailed household expenditure data and find rising inflation is primarily the latter. We …
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economic growth. This paper examines the roles of three other factors: primary budget surpluses, surprise inflation, and pegged … inflation and the pre-Accord peg. In this counterfactual, debt/GDP declines only to 74% in 1974, not 23% as in actual history …
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This paper investigates the effects of inflation news coverage on market-based inflation expectations and outcomes in … the inflation-protected securities market. We employ a large corpus of news headlines from top U.S. newspapers and market … data on the U.S. yield curve and inflation-protected securities. Our results indicate that news coverage, particularly …
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inflation economy characterized by relatively frequent administrative price adjustments. Fluctuations of market determined …
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The paper offers a new explanation for the cause of the Great Inflation by constructing a model that explicitly … separates the roles of government and monetary policymakers. A mechanism that inflation can accelerate even if an inflation … target is low is uncovered. The model solves the puzzle of the observed high inflation target during the Great Inflation and …
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The runaway inflation in Bolivia from 1982 to 1985 was different from that in most other countries by not being related … analyzed from the public choice point of view. Three conditions explain Bolivia's runaway inflation: a central bank with the …-back in foreign loans and aid can trigger a runaway inflation. …
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