Showing 21 - 30 of 787,908
The authors apply a Hidden Markov Model to identify regimes of shifting inflation and then employ an attribution … technique based on the Mahalanobis distance to identify the economic variables that determine the trajectory of inflation. Their … analysis enables policymakers to focus on the most effective tools to manage inflation, and it offers guidance to investors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030604
supply, interest rate (IR), and exchange rate (EXR) in India during the pre-economic crisis and economic crisis periods … short-run bidirectional causality between money supply and EXR, IR and price level, and IR and output in India during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057984
hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272966
A growing body of empirical evidence shows that there exists a long-run positive tradeoff between inflation and real … between inflation and output. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273150
The paper extends the efficiency wages Phillips curve from a closed economy context to an open economy one with both commodity trade and capital mobility. Opening the trade account does not alter the slope of the Phillips curve, but it makes its position a function of the change of foreign and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277343
The present paper explores the connection between inflation and unemployment in different models with fair wages both … function, more inflation lowers the unemployment rate, though to a declining extent. This is because firms respond to inflation … inflation on effort. A stronger effect of nflation on unemployment is also produced under varying as opposed to fixed capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277344
We consider the effect of money illusion - defined referring to Stevens' ratio estimation function - on the long-run Phillips curve in an otherwise standard New Keynesian model of sticky wages. We show that if households under-perceive real economic variables, negative money...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277352
This paper studies the welfare costs and the redistributive effects of inflation in the presence of idiosyncratic … money demand and the distribution of money holdings across households, and study the effects of inflation under the implied … inflation are on average 40% smaller compared to a complete markets, representative agent economy, and that inflation induces …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279920
interaction affects the allocation and welfare. Regarding how banking affects the welfare costs of inflation: First, we find that …, with banking, inflation generates smaller welfare costs. Second, we show that, lowering inflation improves welfare not just … nature of intermediation cost is critical for accurately assessing the welfare gain of lowering the inflation target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790575
Milton Friedman's empirical research is very different in tone and substance than the research in a typical journal article. This chapter points out that the difference in tone and substance is directly related to Friedman's views on the foundations of statistics. Instead of viewing statistics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048325