Search Results - subject:"Relative Price Variability"

The Persistence of Inflation in Switzerland: Evidence from Disaggregate Data

Elmer, Simone; Maag, Thomas - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2009

This paper investigates persistence of Swiss consumer price inflation using aggregate and disaggregate inflation data covering 1983{2008. We document that persistence of sectoral inflation rates is below persistence of aggregate inflation. Our main finding is that inflation persistence...

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Dispersion of inflation expectations : stylized facts, puzzles, and macroeconomic implications

Jang, Byeongdeuk; Kim, Young Se - In: The Korean economic review 31 (2015) 1, pp. 89-119

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Evidence on the effects of inflation on price dispersion under indexation

Schreiber, Sven; Scharff, Juliane - 2008

on the cross-sectional price dispersion (relative-price variability, RPV). Using US sectoral prices we estimate (a …

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The Determinants of Relative Price Variability: Further Evidence from Argentina

Caraballo, María Ángeles; Carlos Dabús. - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 45 (2008) 132, pp. 235-255

This paper analyses the relative price variability (here after, RPVI) for Argentina from 1960 to 1993. We have …

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Price Dynamics in the Eastern Caribbean

Duttagupta, Rupa; Sun, Yan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

The Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) countries share a common currency, the EC dollar, which has been pegged to the U.S. dollar at the same rate for more than three decades. This paper examines the influence of the peg on ECCU price stability, and analyzes whether absolute Purchasing...

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Relative Price Variability and the Philips Curve: Evidence from Turkey

Catik, A. Nazif; Martin, Christopher; Önder, A. Özlem - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2008

We argue that relative price changes are a key component of the Phillips curve relationship between inflation and output. Building on work by Ball and Mankiw, we propose including measures of the variances and skewness of relative price adjustment in an otherwise standard model of the Phillips...

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Relative price variability and inflation: empirical evidence in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak

Abdul Karim, Zulkefly; Zaidi, Mohd Azlan Shah; Jusoh, Mansor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study investigates the relationship between relative price variability and inflation in three regions in Malaysia … that the relative price variability has non-linear characteristic. In addition, inflation is also significant and … positively related to influence the relative price variability in all the three regions. The empirical findings also reveal that …

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Relative price and inflation variability in a simple consumer search model

Hajzler, Christopher; Fielding, David - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 1, pp. 17-22

price variability, RPV) and inflation rate dispersion (relative inflation variability, RIV) across goods or locations. Early …There is a large empirical literature on the effect of aggregate inflation on both price-level dispersion (relative …

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Inflation and relative price variability: Evidence for India

Rather, Sartaj Rasool; Durai, S. Raja Sethu; … - In: Journal of Asian Economics 30 (2014) C, pp. 32-41

This study decomposes relative price variability into a component due to inflation and a component due to real factors … variability in relative price changes. The proportion of inflation induced relative price variability increases with the rise in …. The sector wise analysis shows that the major share of total relative price variability is contributed by fluctuations in …

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Does inflation asymmetrically affect relative price variability?

Rather, Sartaj Rasool; Durai S., Raja Sethu; … - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 1/3, pp. 80-83

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