A tanulmány azt vizsgálja, hogy a különböző kamatlábaknak milyen hatásai vannak az árszintre, illetve a nominális árakra egy nyitott elsősorban kis, nyitott gazdaságban szabad tőkeáramlás mellett. Míg a zárt gazdaságban csupán a nominális és reálkamatláb...

A dolgozat az infláció öt különböző megközelítésével foglalkozik. Nyilvánvalónak tűnik, hogy a megélhetési költségek változása, a pénztartás költsége, a reálkamat és a reálárfolyam számítása, illetve a (monetáris) infláció indexének koordinációs funkciója...

The paper adresses several issues pertaining to the problem of monetary policy, inflation measurement, and relative prices. After some preliminary empirical analysis showing that the problem must be relevant we set out to conduct a mainly theoretical investigation. If the per period utility...

The traditional CPI measure has many drawbacks, when used for very different purposes, and it is not at all surprising that a great deal of work has been devoted to its improvement. Besides seasonal adjustment, various other techniques have been developed to find the “core” inflation index....

This paper studies five different aspects of inflation. Undoubtedly, there are manifold requirements made on the consumer price index. It is designed to measure changes in the cost of living and the cost of holding money, to serve as the basis for calculating real interest rate and real exchange...

Financial vulnerability has become a much-studied topic in recent years. The Mexican crisis of 1994-95 reinvigorated interest in developing country capital market crises, and the 1997 events originating in East Asia widened the range of possible causes and mechanism. Then the Russian crisis of...

The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was developed in order to detect and characterize discriminatory treatment, and one of its most frequent use has been the study of wage discrimination. It recognizes that the mere difference between the average wages of two groups may not mean discrimination (in...