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Does inflation help improve public finances? This paper documents the dynamic responses of fiscal variables to an inflation shock, using both quarterly and annual panel data for a broad set of ...

New government data shows inflation may be showing signs of easing. That may be good news for retirees and people approaching retirement. The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, may be ...

Central banks in major industrialized economies were slow to react to the surge in inflation that began in early 2021. The proximate causes of this surge were the supply chain disruptions associated ...

The study "The Well-Being Cost of Inflation Inequalities" was supported by the French National Research Agency Grant ANR-17-EURE-0020. Research support by the CEPREMAP Well-being Observatory and the ...

The United States announced new, higher tariff rates this year. Tariffs can affect supply chains, investment, and firms’ input costs, resulting in supply-side effects such as higher inflation and ...

Consumer prices rose 2 percent in June from a year earlier, a bit higher than economists expected, with a big jump in hotel prices coinciding with a blockbuster series of concerts. Source: Office for ...

A strong debate has broken out among economists and statisticians over Nigeria’s inflation “normalisation” process, with experts disagreeing on whether the recent changes to the Consumer Price Index ...