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The paper examines the factors of global inflation acceleration in 2021-2022. We consider primarily the developed … economies, where rates of inflation over the last two years have exceeded multi-year highs and have significantly exceeded … target levels. We find that the cause of accelerating inflation was an imbalance between aggregate demand, which started to …
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We address this question by examining the conditional dynamics of inflation and output growth in response to markup … shocks for 14 industrialized countries. Markup shocks create a trade-off between output gap and inflation stabilization … purposes, and the theory predicts that conditional on such shocks output growth should be more volatile than inflation in …
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Inflation in advanced economies is low by historical standards but there is no threat of deflation. Slower economic … growth is caused by supply-side constraints rather than low inflation. Below-the-target inflation does not damage the … reputation of central banks. Thus, central banks should not try to bring inflation back to the targeted level of 2%. Rather, they …
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monetary policies based on the inflation targeting regime. Nevertheless, there is no theoretical evidence as to which inflation … determine which inflation level is a threshold for the economic growth. The aim of this study is to examine the relationship … between price stability and economic growth of the selected countries applying inflation targeting. We use threshold dynamic …
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We analyze the impact of price stability-oriented monetary strategies (inflation targeting — IT — and constraining … exchange rate arrangements) on inflation persistence using a time-varying coefficients framework in a panel of 68 countries … (1993–2013). We show that explicit IT has a stronger effect on taming inflation persistence than implicit IT and is …
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This paper develops a model of inflation in an open economy. The model permits analysis of the susceptibility of open … paper arrives at a “structuralist inflation targeting agenda”. Based on a proper conception of inflation dynamics, this … involves “getting inflation targeting right” rather than either accepting mainstream inflation targeting prescriptions or …
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for the economy-inflation and devaluation. The purpose of the research is to analyze the socio-economic results of … inflation and devaluation in Georgia and to determine the main directions to overcome it. Due to study purposes was investigated … the causes of inflation and devaluation, as well as was examined its influence on economic development of the country and …
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We empirically characterize episodes of large inflation surges that have been observed worldwide in the last three … decades. We document four facts. (1) Inflation surges tend to be persistent, with the duration of disinflation exceeding that … of the initial inflation increase. (2) Surges are initially unexpected but followed by a gradual catch-up of average …
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The key to understanding the series of supply shocks that have hit inflation is the nature of the COVID-19 recession. …
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This paper seeks to document and explain the effect of a commodity price shock on underlying core inflation, and how … across many countries there was a break in the response of core inflation to a commodity price shock. In an earlier period, a … shock to commodity prices would lead to a large and significant increase in core inflation, but in later periods, the effect …
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