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What is the probability of high inflation; how high, when? These questions are important to all investors since even … characterizes this as The War On Savers. Higher inflation is possible, at 4% or more, with even worse effects. There are heated … debates about the probability and timing of high inflation, but our review of the extensive literature reveals no reliable way …
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Is inflation 'always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon' or is it fundamentally a fiscal phenomenon? The answer … market imperfections. These ingredients allow for both interpretations of the inflation process in a financially constrained … important identifying restrictions on the observed pattern between inflation and measures of financial and fiscal stress, to the …
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long run. In particular, we show that if monetary policy reacts aggressively to inflation, this supports a steady state … where inflation is close to the central bank's target. However, the same aggressive policy simultaneously favours the … inflation are lower and monetary policy is constrained by the effective lower bound. We discuss how fiscal policy can be used to …
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We analyze the impact of fiscal and monetary stimulus in an economy with mortgage debt, where inflation redistributes … inflation, increasing consumption demand and house prices. The power of fiscal stimulus grows when borrowers are more indebted …. We then show quantitatively that transfers followed by easy monetary policy cause a surge in inflation which helps …
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This article considers the current economic situation from the lens of modern money theory (MMT) and expresses a policy response rooted in post-Keynesian theory and empirical data for the US and the euro area. First, MMT supports targeted deficit spending to promote production. Increasing...
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Part of the present inflation is caused by the breakdown of globalization, in particular supply chains, part is caused … the past and in the presence. This paper attributes inflation decisively to the overwhelming money creation by the …
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, 1981). Given the costs associated with relative price variability, the relation between inflation and relative price … dynamics of inflation are presented. The relation between relative price variability and inflation is verified by carrying out … variability and inflation in Turkey. Besides, inflation is found to Granger-cause relative price variability. These conclusions …
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Market option prices in last 20 years confirmed deviations from the Black and Scholes (BS) models assumptions, especially on the BS implied volatility. Implied binomial trees (IBT) models capture the variations of the implied volatility known as "volatility smile". They provide a discrete...
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The calibration of option pricing models leads to the minimization of an error functional. We show that its usual specification as a root mean squared error implies fluctuating exotics prices and possibly wrong prices. We propose a simple and natural method to overcome these problems, illustrate...
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Mellin transforms in option pricing theory were introduced by Panini and Srivastav (2004). In this contribution, we generalize their results to European power options. We derive Black-Scholes-Merton-like valuation formulas for European power put options using Mellin transforms. Thereafter, we...
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