470 Results for “inflation”

There is a mix of common-sense opinions, political prejudices, conventional business practice, and pragmatic rules of thumb, supported in an ad hoc, opportunistic way by bits and pieces of economic theory.

Price inflation, marginal cost pricing, and principles for electricity market redesign in an era of low-carbon transition

Going Down the Rabbit Hole at Jackson Hole

Wage Repression, Asset Price Inflation, and Structural Change Caused Rising Macroeconomic Inequality for Fifty Years from before Reagan through Trump.This is a summary of a new book that is being published as part of a new book series with Cambridge University Press.

Charles Goodhart, professor emeritus of the financial markets group at the London School of Economics, and Manoj Pradhan, founder of the research firm Talking Heads Macro, talk to Rob about their just released book, The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival

Out of Ammunition? A discussion on central banking and secular stagnation with Larry Summers and Adair Turner

Panic over the impact on  German savers of low interest rates and looming inflation neglects to mention that very few Germans are saving much

Stagnating real wages may have contributed to the slowdown of US productivity

Developments in the real economy have persistently challenged central tenets of older economic thinking, such as the supposed close connection between the money supply and inflation.

Everyone is waking up to the fact that estimates of what is possible in the economy are way off: this paper explains why

Low interest rate policy can only do so much to bring the relief to American borrowers that they deserve: past monetary policies, credit market regulations and stagnant labor productivity growth all get in the way. Interest rate policy activism is part of the problem, not the solution.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, government stimulus can improve the health of the economy for years after, without inflationary side effects 

A model that captures key vulnerabilities and structural weaknesses of developing countries’ trade and production structures.

Medicare negotiators need to have a deep understanding - both theoretical and empirical - of the learning processes involved in developing a drug to negotiate a price that is fair.