The great inflation was not asymmetric: international evidence.

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...DURING THE GREAT INFLATION, inflation rose over a longer period than it fell in the United States...literature and is one target of models that seek to explain the Great Inflation. The explicit chronology of Mayer (1999) puts the period of rising...

Inflation Rates Fall Worldwide; IMF Official Credits Free-Market Policies

The Washington Post;  September 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Inflation has dropped to "the moral equivalent of zero" in the...current trends, by the end of the decade or even earlier, inflation will be tamed if not virtually eradicated throughout...Kansas City, Mo. The worldwide decline in the level of inflation and its variability has had an important role in ...

Inflation and the Poor.

Journal of Money, Credit & Banking;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...THE CLAIM that inflation is the cruelest tax of all is often interpreted as meaning that inflation hurts the poor relatively more than the rich. It could also mean that the inflation tax is particularly unfair because, the taxing mechanism being...

The relation between growth and inflation rates in Latin America.

Journal of International Business Research;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Inflation has long been a problem for countries in...Keynesian thought posits the notion that inflation and growth can be positively related, while other theories suggest that inflation is detrimental to long-run growth. Various...

Costs of inflation. (includes related articles)(The Rise and Fall of...

World Economic Outlook;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Inflation imposes significant economic and social costs. By clouding relative price signals, generating uncertainty about future inflation, and generally reducing the information content of the price system, inflation distorts the allocation of resources and adversely affects economic efficiency...

"The dragon's fire is burning our dough"; Inflation will likely singe even...

Firehouse Magazine;  September 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Inflation is a more subtle economic indicator than the whack to...pants no longer button where they used to. Yes, that old inflation dragon we thought we had slain for good back in the 1980s...to be spoiled in the last 20 years or so with a modest inflation as central banks around the world have become ...

ANALYSIS: THE MERITS OF INFLATION - II

United Press International;  September 26, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Even if these were to be included, the way inflation is defined and measured today, they would...can still have a -- negative or positive -- inflationary effect. In real terms, in deflation, both...incorporate this downward stickiness in present-day inflation measures. The methodology of computing ...

Lest we forget: inflation still hurts.

New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand);  July 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ...DOES inflation matter any more? Investors might be asking...accustomed to policies that put the control of inflation at the top of their economic agendas...assigning its central bank control over inflation, with the setting of interest rates as...

Has the behavior of inflation and long-term inflation expectations...

Economic Review (Kansas City);  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...From 1975 to 1980, inflation in core (nonfood and non-energy) consumer...2001 to 2007, core consumer price inflation remained essentially flat. Some observers...attributed the stability of consumer price inflation in the more recent episode to the...

Analysis: The merits of inflation - II.

United Press International;  December 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Even if these were to be included, the way inflation is defined and measured today, they would...can still have a -- negative or positive -- inflationary effect. In real terms, in deflation, both...incorporate this downward stickiness in present-day inflation measures. The methodology of computing ...

Brookings Announces New Editors for Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

U.S. Newswire;  May 25, 2007 ;     550 words ......prominent economists as co-editors of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA), the flagship...Arthur Okun and George Perry, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity journal contains...George Perry and Bill Brainard made the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity one of the ...

Is inflation dead?(World Economic Survey)

The Economist (US);  September 28, 1996 ;     700+ words ...REMEMBER inflation, the beast that ravaged pay, pensions...powerful structural forces have made inflation an extinct volcano . Roger Bootle, chief...it with a book entitled The Death of Inflation (published by Nicholas Brealey, London...

Inflation is not a concern just yet.

Investment Adviser;  June 25, 2007 ;     334 words ...INFLATION Global inflation is not so much a short-term problem as a medium to long-term issue...and the report's author, said: At this stage, we are relaxed about inflation and agree with the assessment of the bond markets. Expectations are...

Not all are dismissing prospect of inflation

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Inflation is under control. That's what the news stories say, what...percent excluding food and energy--the improvement in inflation in the third quarter was palpable. Take a look at one of the key categories for us inflation-brigade scouts: services excluding energy services (better...

inflation

A Dictionary of Economics;      215 words ...inflation A persistent tendency for prices and money wages to increase. Inflation is measured by the proportional changes over time in...the type and quality of goods available, measures of inflation are probably not reliable to closer than a margin of...