This explanation has been articulated in a number of recent papers. See, for example, Azariadis and Smith (forthcoming), Boyd and Smith (forthcoming), and Schreft and Smith (forthcoming and 1994). A consensus among economists seems to be that high rates of inflation cause " problems, " not just for some individuals, but for aggregate economic performance. There is much less agreement about what...

We study the self-duality operator on conic 4-manifolds. The self-duality operator can be identified as a regular singular operator in the sense of Brüning and Seeley, based on which we construct its parametrizations and closed extensions. We also compute the indexes.

This article gives a brief overview of some of the theory behind the inflationary cosmology, and discusses prospects for constraining inflation using observations. Particular care is given to the question of falsifiability of inflation or of subsets of inflationary models.‡

Economists often comment that inflation will tend to increase (or decrease) if growth is higher or lower than the 'potential' growth rate of the the economy. After setting out a theoretical justification for such a relationship we estimate equations relating the change in inflation to growth rates for the US, Canada and Australia. Our system also allows for the possibility that traded goods pri...

Abstract We use detailed data for Iceland to examine two often-neglected aspects of the exchange rate pass-through problem. First, we investigate whether coefficient varies with degree international tradability goods. Second, analyze if depends on monetary policy framework. consider 12 disaggregated price indexes in 2003–2019, a period that includes Iceland’s banking and currency crisis 2008. f...

This paper provides a review of the concept of core inflation and evaluates the performance of several proposed measures. We first consider the rationale of a central bank in setting its inflation goal in terms of a selected rate of consumer price growth and the use of a core inflation measure as a means of achieving this long-term policy objective. We then discuss desired attributes of a core ...