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The paper investigates EU banks' profitability through the recent financial cycle using banklevelbalance sheet and income statement data. We find that banks that were more successfulat protecting their profits had a less pronounced deterioration in loan quality and a largerimprovement in cost...
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This paper presents and discusses the estimates of the present value of corporate profits in the United States from 1984 to 2018. To value the expected income stream, it uses the long-range forecasts of professional forecasters for pre-tax corporate earnings and long-term Treasury note yields,...
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Understanding the interplay between firms' balance sheets and the macro-economic environment is important for understanding of the Brazilian economy. A close examination of developments in the nonfinancial corporate sector up to the early 2015 reveals weak equity growth, declining profitability,...
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The paper uses both macro- and micro-level data to assess how has the financial health of the Irish non-financial corporate (NFC) sector changed in the post financial crisis period. The analysis suggests that vulnerabilities have generally declined in recent years, but the NFC sector and...
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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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