Inflation and Deflation - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 1981 (Revised January 1984)
Case

International Harvester: Purchasing Inflation Offset System

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Kenneth A. Merchant

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02 Sep 2020
News

Inflation Is Higher Than the Numbers Say

March 1983 (Revised March 1988)
Case

American Standard, Inc.: The Inflation Accounting System

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

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Article

Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis

By: Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira

This paper empirically analyzes the Expectations Hypothesis (EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also confirm and update the existing evidence rejecting the... View Details

Keywords: TIPS; Breakeven Inflation; Return Predictability; Bond Risk Premia; Risk Management; Bonds; Financial Liquidity; Inflation and Deflation; United Kingdom; United States

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26 May 2022
News

What’s Supercharging Inflation and Dragging Down the Economy? The Price of Diesel.

April 1977
Article

Purchasing Power Gains on Debt: The Effect of Expected and Unexpected Inflation

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Inflation and Deflation

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15 Nov 2016
News

Britain’s inflation data needs to be dragged out of the stone age

2013
Article

Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals

By: S. A. Swift, D. Moore, Z. Sharek and F. Gino

When explaining others' behaviors, achievements, and failures, it is common for people to attribute too much influence to disposition and too little influence to structural and situational factors. We examine whether this tendency leads even experienced professionals... View Details

Keywords: Evaluations; Correspondence Bias; Selection Decisions; Attribution; Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Decision Choices and Conditions; Performance Evaluation; Cognition and Thinking

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2013
Working Paper

Internet Appendix for "Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds"

By: Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira and John Y. Campbell

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February 2007
Article

The Persistence of Inflation Versus that of Real Marginal Cost in the New Keynesian Model

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This note provides an example where the New Keynesian Phillips Curve leads inflation to be substantially more persistent than the output gap. View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Inflation and Deflation; Cost

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March 1983 (Revised June 1988)
Teaching Note

American Standard, Inc.: The Inflation Accounting System, TN

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

Keywords: Accounting; Inflation and Deflation

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12 Jul 2021
News

Inflation Threat May Be Boosted by Changes in Globalization, Demographics and E-Commerce

03 Jun 2024
News

Biden and Trump Share a Faith in Import Tariffs, Despite Inflation Risks

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

the study estimates. Cohen’s study emerges as record inflation and chronic staffing shortages collide making compensation a top challenge in human resources. While the trend is most heavily concentrated in... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis