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Outstanding Issues in the Analysis of Inflation

William T. Dickens
- pp 447-456
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The article was published on 2009-09-11. It has received 57 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inflation.

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Empirical Evidence on Inflation Expectations in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

TL;DR: The authors review the main identification strategies and empirical evidence on the role of expectations in the New Keynesian Phillips curve, paying particular attention to the issue of weak identi cies and weak identici cies.
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Commodity Liquidity Measurement and Transaction Costs

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the performance of liquidity proxies in commodities and found that the Amihud measure has the largest correlation with liquidity benchmarks and the Effective Tick measure also performed well, while Splitting trades over one hour can reduce trading costs by two-thirds compared to an immediate execution.
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Commodity Prices, Convenience Yields, and Inflation

TL;DR: This paper showed that the two leading principal components in a panel of 23 commodity convenience yields have statistically and quantitatively important predictive power for inflation even after controlling for unemployment gap and oil prices.
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The Role of Liquidity in Financial Crises

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use insights from the academic literature on crises to understand the role of liquidity in the current crisis and focus on four crucial features of the crisis that they argue are related to liquidity provision.
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Liquidity Commonality in Commodities

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine liquidity commonality in commodity futures markets and find evidence that changes in stock market liquidity positively influence changes in individual commodity liquidity, including agricultural, energy, industrial metal, precious metal, and livestock commodities.
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Inflation Dynamics: A Structural Economic Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and estimated a structural model of inflation that allows for a fraction of firms that use a backward looking rule to set prices, and they concluded that the New Keynesian Phillips curve provides a good first approximation to the dynamics of inflation.
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Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and estimated a structural model of inflation that allows for a fraction of firms that use a backward-looking rule to set prices, and the model nests the purely forward-looking New Keynesian Phillips curve as a particular case.
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The Cyclical Behavior of Prices and Costs

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the extent to which observed fluctuations in aggregate economic activity depend upon such variations in average markups and show that countercyclical markup variation may, depending upon how costs are modeled, account for a substantial fraction of cyclical output movements.