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Blanchard (2022) highlights in his analysis of near- term inflation pressures. The amenity-values gains associated with the …
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We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported negative impact of Covid-19 on current business is...
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This study analyzes how firms form their inflation expectations during a regime change in monetary policy and a … transition to a low-inflation environment. Using the Bank of Israel survey of firms, we document the basic properties of firms …' inflation expectations and examine how Israeli firms update their inflation expectations after receiving new information about …
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- although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for the stylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly … asserted that, in the context of the new Phillips curve (NPC), inflation is a jump variable. We argue that this persistency … setting (in which real variables not only affect inflation, but are also influenced by it), standard wage-price staggering …
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Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper … concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which observed inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our …
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In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of trust seem to be not fully settled, and the identification of the exact role of trust in economic...
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This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms in Norway respond to increased union density, using legislative changes in the tax deductibility of union dues as a quasi-exogenous shock to firm-level unionization rates. Despite higher personnel costs driven by a...
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We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price...
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We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566535
countries and non-Inflation Targeting countries, Section 5 uses panel estimation methods including GMM techniques on different …This paper evaluates the success of Inflation Targeting on inflation and growth on a large panel data set of both … authors have used different estimation methods on different samples of data. Some of the differences in results may also be …
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