Inflation - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

ripple through the balance sheets of businesses and households alike. Indeed, after years of debate, Congress recently took aim at drug prices through provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. But there are many systemic factors leading... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

state? (pdf) This report provides an overview of the history of industrial policy in the United States. It also looks at current policies, including the Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS and Science Act, and discusses the private sector's... View Details

June 2003 (Revised July 2003)
Teaching Note

India on the Move (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Teaching Note for (9-703-050). View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Adoption; Foreign Direct Investment; Macroeconomics; Trade; Governance Controls; Competition; Inflation and Deflation; Entrepreneurship; India; Pakistan

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August 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (C)

By: David F. Hawkins

The third case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to a further devaluation of the Bolivar? View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela

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Behavioral Aspects of Price Setting, and Their Policy Implications

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices. Cognitively, some consumers do not appear to make effective use of price information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Price; Policy; Laws and Statutes; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations

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August 2010 (Revised February 2012)
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Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (B)

By: David F. Hawkins

Second case in the Cosmeticos de Espana case series. What should management's accounting response be to a devaluation of the Bolivar? View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Decision Choices and Conditions; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela

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August 2010 (Revised February 2012)
Case

Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (A)

By: David F. Hawkins

Management must decide which exchange rate to use to consolidate the company's Venezuelan subsidiary. View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Business Subsidiaries; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Spain; Venezuela

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22 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

January 2008 (Revised April 2009)
Case

Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (A)

By: Laura Alfaro and Akiko Kanno

Toshihiko Fukui, Governor of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex situation in the fall of 2007. An economic recovery had allowed the central bank to abandon its zero interest rate policy, which had been in place for years, and raise rates to 0.5%. The Bank of Japan was... View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Money; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Policy; Japan

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01 Oct 1997
News

Doing Something Real

contemplating our 25th Reunion isn't so much our two years in those United NationsÐlike Aldrich classrooms, or the upcoming reunion itself, but how much has changed in the interim. We have gone from the days (begun with that awful vending-machine coffee) of pocket... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

23 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers

optional for a transaction, including travel booking networks, restaurant ordering services, online rebate services, and some kinds of insurance. Overall, the researchers find that price coherence actually leads to inflated retail prices,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Air Transportation; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

7 percent, with lots of appreciation on top of that. Do you have concerns about Japanlike deflation in the United States? Some fear that with a very low inflation rate of 1.5 percent, the United States is in danger of following Japan into... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

January 1997 (Revised March 1997)
Background Note

Note on Money and Monetary Policy

By: David A. Moss and Wyatt C. Wells

Offers a brief overview of economic thinking about the nature of money and about how the central bank can affect the economy through monetary policy. View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Government Administration; Policy; Central Banking; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis

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07 Sep 2021
News

One Degree of Difference

two-thirds of American workers. It’s a particularly expensive practice for employers, who pay up to 30 percent more to hire graduates for middle-skills work even when individuals without degrees perform equally or nearly as well, according to “Dismissed by Degrees: How... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

didn’t follow smaller developers who flip houses, renovating and selling them quickly, often further inflating housing prices. And he definitely did not follow in the footsteps of the slumlords, those absentee owners who have long reigned... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

that this economic juggernaut carries risk. Investors know that the price of all assets rise and fall. In much of the country, home prices are falling. Soon the dictionary, under home, may shelve "investment" as archaic, reflecting a period of View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

employees and less than 3 percent to investors. Compared with the preceding decade of the 80s, customers enjoyed the benefits of low inflation while corporations suffered lower rates of increase in profits and investors received lower... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Shantanu Rege

on familiar economic issues. "In a textbook, inflation is just a number. But when you have colleagues who've lived through it, you understand its real impact on life, families, and politics. You learn about what it means and how... View Details

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

of Monetary Policy By: Du, Wenxin, Carolin E. Pflueger, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne