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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788526003321

Autore

Veiga Francisco José

Titolo

Political Instability and Inflation Volatility / / Francisco José Veiga, Ari Aisen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-0035-9

1-4527-0574-7

1-282-47428-6

1-4519-0925-X

9786613821812

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (11 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

AisenAri

Soggetti

Inflation (Finance) - Econometric models

Political stability - Econometric models

Inflation

Macroeconomics

Agribusiness

Price Level

Deflation

Energy: Demand and Supply

Prices

Agriculture: General

Agricultural economics

Oil prices

Agricultural sector

Agricultural industries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. DATA AND THE EMPIRICAL MODELS""; ""III. EMPIRICAL RESULTS""; ""IV. CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of this paper is to empirically determine the causes of



worldwide diversity of inflation volatility. We show that higher degrees of political instability, ideological polarization, and political fragmentation are associated with higher inflation volatility.