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High and volatile inflation has been an endemic economic and social issue in Iran that has contributed to rising … poverty and social tensions. For policymakers to effectively address the inflation problem, it is critical to understand its … long-term determinants of inflation in Iran over the past two decades and identify policy options to curb it. Using …
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The pass-through effects of oil price shocks on wage and consumer price inflation vary with the states or structural … advanced economies. The pass-through to wages is found to have been higher when the prevailing level of inflation was higher or … policy. The effects of oil price shocks on core inflation and inflation expectations are consistent with their effects on …
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In this paper, we examine how economic shocks affect the distribution of household inflation expectations. We show that … the dynamics of households' expected inflation distributions are driven by three distinctive functional shocks, which … influence the expected inflation distribution through disagreement, level shift and ambiguity. Linking these functional shocks …
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Inflation and unemployment rate were largely disconnected between 2000 and 2019 in advanced economies. We decompose … core inflation into two parts based on the cyclical sensitivity of CPI components and document several salient facts: (i … inflation and unemployment rate. The approach has potential to help understand forces shaping price pressures during the …
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This paper explores inflation dynamics and monetary policy in Bolivia. Bolivia's monetary policy framework has been … effective in stabilizing inflation in recent times. This has been a challenging task given high price volatility of key consumer … framework has contributed to the stabilization of inflation, with effective transmission through the bank lending channel, while …
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This paper focuses on the role of the pass-through of the exchange rate and policydeterminants in driving inflation …, nonfood prices not only directly influence headline inflation, but also have an significant impact on food inflation via … second round effects; (ii) the pass-through of the exchange rate to headline inflation has jumped from zero to 11 percent …
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This paper incorporates market-based inflation expectations to the growing literature on trendinflation estimation, and …
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In this paper, we undertake empirical analysis to understand U.S. wage behavior since thebeginning of the new millennium. At the macroeconomic level, we find that aproductivity-augmented Phillips curve model explains the data fairly well. The modelreveals that the upward pressure on wage growth...
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Inflation in Barbados is mainly imported. But how are external shocks transmitted to the domestic economy? Shouldn … dynamics and contribute to the existing literature in three ways: (i) we identify the process with which inflation expectations … are likely to be formed in Barbados; (ii) we add forward looking inflation expectations as one of the main channels …
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This paper investigates the evolution of inflation dynamics in the five largest ASEAN countries between 1997 and 2017 …-looking dynamics and a better anchoring of inflation expectations, consistent with the improvements in monetary policy frameworks in …
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