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Interest rates, commodity price changes and Gibson's paradox

Brown, W.W.; Santoni, G.J. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 1987

This paper argues that the positive relationship between the level of prices and interest rates noted by Gibson arises …, in part, because measured prices indexes, which are comprised primarily of the prices of short-lived consumption goods …

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Aggregate price shocks and financial stability: the United Kingdom 1796-1999

Bordo, Michael D.; Dueker, Michael J.; Wheelock, David C. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2001

This paper investigates the impact historically of aggregate price shocks on financial stability in the United Kingdom. We construct an annual index of U.K. financial conditions for 1790-1999 and use a dynamic probit model to estimate the effect of aggregate price shocks on the index. We find...

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Aggregate price shocks and financial instability: a historical analysis

Bordo, Michael D.; Dueker, Michael J.; Wheelock, David C. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2001

This paper presents empirical evidence on the hypothesis that aggregate price disturbances cause or worsen financial distress. We construct two annual indexes of financial conditions for the United States covering 1790-1997, and estimate the effect of aggregate price shocks on each index using a...

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