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Inflation-Indexing Elements in Federal Entitlement Programs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
[Excerpt] In recent years, various proposals have been discussed in the context of ways to reduce federal budget deficits. One of the proposals, for example, is the use of a different measure of consumer price change to index various provisions of ...
Nuschler, Dawn
core   +2 more sources

Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Inflation Dynamics in Post-Communist Economies : The Case of Uzbekistan

open access: yesPublic Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review
This paper seeks to investigate the short-run and long-run relationship between price level and monetary, non-monetary and external factors of inflation in Uzbekistan, from January 2016 to August 2025.
Elyor Davlatov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

PKCα and CPI-17 expression and spatial-temporal distribution with activation in pig stomach antrum and fundus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Smooth muscle contraction is a complicated process coordinated by contractile, regulatory and cytoskeletal proteins. The force generation depends on the phosphorylation of Myosin Regulatory Light Chain (MLC20). Myosin Light Chain Kinase (MLCK) and Myosin
Zhang, Yu
core   +1 more source

Inflation, Race, and Legislation—The Erosion in the Real Value of Monetary Compensation for Miners' Occupational Lung Disease in South Africa, 1973–2024

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background For much of the 20th century, the South African mining industry had a statutory compensation system for pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis characterized by gross racial inequality. This study examines the impact of inflation over the period 1973–2024 on the real value of miners' lung disease compensation, including the effect of the ...
Martin Nicol   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forecasting monthly us consumer price indexes through a disaggregated I(2) analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In this paper we carry a disaggregated study of the monthly US Consumer Price Index (CPI). We consider a breakdown of US CPI in four subindexes, corresponding to four groups of markets: energy, food, rest of commodities and rest of services. This is seen
Espasa, Antoni   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The competitiveness versus the wealth of a country [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Politicians world-wide frequently promise a better life for their citizens. We find that the probability that a country will increase its {\it per capita} GDP ({\it gdp}) rank within a decade follows an exponential distribution with decay constant ...
Horvatic, Davor   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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