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The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper … constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass …, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most …
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. CONCEPTS AND PRACTICAL ISSUES -- III. SOURCES OF ERROR AND BIAS IN A CPI -- IV. THE METHODS -- V. HOW TO CHOOSE AMONG METHODS: JUDGING WHICH IS BEST -- VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES.
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During the first half of 2008, Sri Lanka witnessed significantly higher inflation than most other emerging Asian … countries. Inflation has since declined amid declining world commodity prices and tight monetary policy. Given the sensitivity … to global commodity prices, a core inflation measure could be useful for monetary policy. The purpose of this paper is to …
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activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across …
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economic growth. This paper examines the roles of three other factors: primary budget surpluses, surprise inflation, and pegged … inflation and the pre-Accord peg. In this counterfactual, debt/GDP declines only to 74% in 1974, not 23% as in actual history …
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What is the impact of climate change on inflation and growth dynamics? This is not a simple question to answer as … climate-related shocks affect inflation and economic growth also depends on long-run scarring in the economy and the country … investigate how climate shocks, as measured by climate-induced natural disasters, influence inflation and economic growth in a …
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, despite double-digit domestic food inflation in most countries. To shed light on the relative importance of income growth and … food inflation in driving food insecurity, we employ a heterogeneous-agent model with income inequality, complemented by …-of-trade, external economic growth, and harvest shocks) to isolate exogenous variation in domestic income growth and ood inflation. Our …
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times. An inflation shock only slightly reduces the debt ratio for a few quarters. A positive growth shock unambiguously …
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This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5 percent. This …
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This paper explores the connection between interest rates in major industrial countries and annual real output growth in other countries. The results show that high large-country interest rates have a contractionary effect on annual real GDP growth in the domestic economy, but that this effect...
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