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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of capacity utilisation (CU) in the Nigerian economy over the last 12 years (1991-2003) with the view to determining if there has been significant improvement in CU despite changes in government policies initiated to boost the...
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This paper looks back at 20 years of inflation targeting (IT) in the world, reviewing previous findings and reporting … broadly, comparing output and inflation volatility under IT to volatility observed in non-IT experiences. Three, it surveys …
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Every month the commercial banks in Iceland publish their inflation forecast for the coming month. This paper examines … how accurate these forecasts were from 2000 to 2006. Most of the forecasts have similar accuracy where the inflation rate …
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This paper carries out the methodology suggested by Den Haan (2000) to investigate the co-movement of inflation and …-run relationships between inflation and real stock returns, regardless of whether the underlying time series data are purely I(0 … long-run relationship between these two variables in 12 OECD countries. That is, an increase in inflation depresses real …
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This paper investigates the impact of revisions in inflation expectations on the prices of UK inflation-indexed and … conventional government bonds with a vector autoregressive (VAR) model. Downwards revisions of inflation expectations are … affected. This suggests that indexed bonds protect investors against inflation while nominal bonds are exposed to changing …
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's share of national income to the inflation rate (as well as to the output gap, the unemployment rate and the capital stock … inflation and the labor share. Our results suggest that disinflation is not distributively neutral, provide empirical support … negative impact of inflation on growth. …
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This model analyses the interaction between inflation and the long-run levels of employment and output growth in a … equilibrium, both employment and growth are hump-shaped functions of money growth peaking at positive inflation rates. This is due … to four effects of money growth under rigidity: Erosion of its relative price through inflation and the optimal initial …
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The purpose of this paper is to empirically determine the causes of the worldwide diversity of inflation volatility. We … higher inflation volatility. …
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evolution of inflation and unemployment in the United States and Canada since 1930. …
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Many pricing models imply that nominal interest rates contain information on inflation expectations. This has lead to a … large empirical literature that investigates the use of interest rates as predictors of future inflation. Most of these … focus on the Fisher hypothesis in which the interest rate maturity matches the inflation horizon. In general forecast …
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