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based on static expectations, such contracts will result in a greater reduction in inflation with lower output costs …
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particular the aim of price stability, understood as low and stable inflation. Design/Research methods: The article was prepared … inflation reduces uncertainty about future price developments. This facilitates decision-making for companies concerning …
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the current monetary regime, flexible inflation targeting, provided a relatively stable monetary environment. Although the … success of flexible inflation targeting poses new challenges for the implementation of monetary policy because the trend … decline in inflation was associated with a trend decline in nominal interest rates. …
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In a previous attempt to articulate the costs of inflation (Leigh-Pemberton (1992)), the Bank of England outlined the … following costs of a fully-anticipated inflation: - the cost of economising on real money balances -- so-called shoe … these costs when moving from 2% inflation to price stability in the U.S. Feldstein concluded that the permanent welfare …
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. The risk of future regime shifts has encompassing effects on equilibrium. Inflation is systematically higher than it would … stability. This inflation bias is increasing in the real value of government debt. Regime-switching probabilities are not … interest rate sufficiently moderately when inflation increases. Lower fiscal dominance risk, in turn, mitigates the inflation …
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While a standard academic presumption has been that wage indexation reduces the cost of disinflation, policymakers generally contend that wage indexing makes disinflation more difficult. To shed light on these views, this paper reexamines the effects of wage indexing on the output loss caused by...
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metal-currency regimes before WW1. (ii) The flexible inflation targeting regime adopted in December 1999 has performed best … clearly communicated nominal price anchor (Bretton Woods System and monetary targeting) were characterised by an inflation … inflation targeting, were associated with a deflation bias. (v) Persistent deflations in terms of the CPI only occurred under …
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After the introduction of a stabilization program Israeli inflation decreased from 400% in 1985 to 2% in 2013. This … process is defined by three clear steps of high, medium and low inflation. The break dates are in line with major economic …
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After the introduction of a stabilization program Israeli inflation decreased from 400% in 1985 to 2% in 2013. This … hypothesis that inflation moved in distinct steps characterized by constant levels with short-lived fluctuations around them … process is defined by three clear steps of high, medium and low inflation. The break dates are in line with major economic …
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important mainstream macroeconomic explanation of differences in inflation rates between countries, here coined the ?orthodox … independent central banks as causes for low inflation might be considered quite strong, it is argued in this paper that the … sensitivity indicator for the inflation awareness in these countries is obtained. It can be shown that these sensitivity …
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