Download or read book The Great Inflation written by Michael D. Bordo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controlling inflation is among the most important objectives of economic policy. By maintaining price stability, policy makers are able to reduce uncertainty, improve price-monitoring mechanisms, and facilitate more efficient planning and allocation of resources, thereby raising productivity. This volume focuses on understanding the causes of the Great Inflation of the 1970s and ’80s, which saw rising inflation in many nations, and which propelled interest rates across the developing world into the double digits. In the decades since, the immediate cause of the period’s rise in inflation has been the subject of considerable debate. Among the areas of contention are the role of monetary policy in driving inflation and the implications this had both for policy design and for evaluating the performance of those who set the policy. Here, contributors map monetary policy from the 1960s to the present, shedding light on the ways in which the lessons of the Great Inflation were absorbed and applied to today’s global and increasingly complex economic environment.

Download or read book Inflation News and the Stock Market written by Johan Knif and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies find only a weak relationship between inflation news and stock market returns. We show that significant daily market reactions to different types of inflation shocks occur in dynamic economic states. Also, although previous work has not examined longer-run market reactions, our results demonstrate large, significant, and slow market responses to both positive and negative inflation shocks in the post-event month. Stock return reversals are common in months subsequent to large market response to inflation shocks. In both daily and monthly analyses we find instances in which stock returns are not inversely related to inflation shocks. These and other findings lead us to conclude that inflation shocks are important news events that can produce a variety of stock market reactions depending on economic state and type of inflation shock. Our evidence also suggests that inflation shocks can generate stock market overreactions in some cases.

Download or read book Inflation Expectations written by Peter J. N. Sinclair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inflation is regarded by the many as a menace that damages business and can only make life worse for households. Keeping it low depends critically on ensuring that firms and workers expect it to be low. So expectations of inflation are a key influence on national economic welfare. This collection pulls together a galaxy of world experts (including Roy Batchelor, Richard Curtin and Staffan Linden) on inflation expectations to debate different aspects of the issues involved. The main focus of the volume is on likely inflation developments. A number of factors have led practitioners and academic observers of monetary policy to place increasing emphasis recently on inflation expectations. One is the spread of inflation targeting, invented in New Zealand over 15 years ago, but now encompassing many important economies including Brazil, Canada, Israel and Great Britain. Even more significantly, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the United States Federal Bank are the leading members of another group of monetary institutions all considering or implementing moves in the same direction. A second is the large reduction in actual inflation that has been observed in most countries over the past decade or so. These considerations underscore the critical – and largely underrecognized - importance of inflation expectations. They emphasize the importance of the issues, and the great need for a volume that offers a clear, systematic treatment of them. This book, under the steely editorship of Peter Sinclair, should prove very important for policy makers and monetary economists alike.

Download or read book Responses of the Stock Market to Macroeconomic Announcements Across Economic States written by Zuliu Hu and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the stock market responsive to macroeconomic news? This paper employs the daily returns of the Dow Jones Industrial Index, the S&P 500 index, the Russell 1000 index, and the Russell 2000 index to examine stock market reactions to a broad list of macroeconomic announcements, including money supply, inflation, employment, housing starts, and trade balances, etc. Several announcements concerning real economic activity that have received little attention in previous research are shown to have a significant impact on stock prices. The paper also presents preliminary evidence for the different reaction to macroeconomic news by small cap stocks and large cap stocks.

Download or read book The Stock Market and Inflation written by J. Anthony Boeckh and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Relationship Between Inflation News and High Frequency Stock Returns written by Lianqun Sun and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increases or decreases in stock prices will determine how much an investor0́9s wealth will shrink or grow in the stock market. One set of important factors that influences the stock market is macroeconomic indicators, like inflation news. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) and The Producer Price Index (PPI) are among the most important measures of inflation conditions and overall economic conditions. Adams, McQueen and Wood have already identified the relationship between inflation news and stock return. In their paper published in 2004, they found the unexpected increases in both PPI and CPI could cause stock prices to fall. In their paper, they explored the responses of stock intraday data and the unexpected changes in the Producer Price Index and Consumer Price Index before and on the news announcement date from 1977 to 1987.

Download or read book Stock Market Response to Unexpected Macroeconomic News written by Mahdi Sadeghi and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between unexpected changes in macroeconomic variables and Australian stock returns over the period 1980-1991. The results suggest that stock returns are positively correlated with any surprise news in the current account deficit, the exchange rate and growth rate of real GDP, and negatively correlated with surprise news about the inflation rate and interest rates. Stock returns are also positively correlated with the unexpected unemployment rate and negatively correlated to revisions in the expected unemployment rate. The results furthermore suggest that market portfolios can detect the impact of common economic shocks better than the portfolios of the two main subsectors of the market.

Download or read book The Myths of Inflation and Investing written by Steven C. Leuthold and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Is Disinflation Good for the Stock Market written by Peter Blair Henry and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When countries attempt to stabilize annual inflation rates that are greater than 40 percent, the domestic stock market appreciates by 24 percent on average. The present value of the long-run benefits to shareholders of reducing high inflation outweighs the present value of the short-run costs. In contrast, the average market response is economically weak and statistically insignificant, if the pre-stabilization inflation rate is less than 40 percent. Stock market responses also help predict the change in inflation and output in the year following stabilization efforts. This additional result indicates that the stock market evidence for the 81 episodes studied is not spurious.

Download or read book The Portable Financial Analyst written by Mark P. Kritzman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial professionals are faced with increasingly technical topics that are theoretically complicated but practically necessary in determining the trade-off between risk and return. The Portable Financial Analyst, Second Edition is a unique collection of essays that address the heart of every analyst's and investor's dilemma: how to make decisions in the face of unknown forces and how to assert some control over the outcome

Download or read book News of Inflation and Effect on Stock Prices in India written by Tarak Nath Sahu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In any economy, changes in inflation rate influence almost all economic activities directly or indirectly. In the economic theory, it is understood that low and stable inflation is desired as a key objective of economic policy. On the contrary, high inflation is widely believed to hold back economic growth and is contrary to social justice. Thus the relationship between inflation and economic growth and relationship between inflation and corporate performances has been an interesting issue for the researchers. There is also relation between corporate fundamentals and stock prices. In this context, the intention of this study is to investigate the impact of the inflation rate on stock market in India during the period 1993 to 2013. The Johansen's cointegration test suggests that there exist significant negative long-run co-movement between the rate of inflation and stock prices in India. The result of vector error correction model indicates that in short-run the inflation rate negatively affects the Indian stock market, and, the Granger Causality test reveals that the inflation rate causes the stock market movement in India. The variance decomposition analysis reveals that both the Indian stock markets are strongly exogenous in the sense that shocks to inflation rate explain only a small portion of the forecast variance error of the market indices. Finally, from the impulse response function analysis it is noticed that a positive shock on inflation rate has a negative and persistent effect on Indian stock markets.

Download or read book Trillion Dollar Triage written by Nick Timiraos and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inside story, told with “insight, perspective, and stellar reporting,” of how an unassuming civil servant created trillions of dollars from thin air, combatted a public health crisis, and saved the American economy from a second Great Depression (Alan S. Blinder, former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve). By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into the equivalent of a medically induced coma. America’s workplaces—offices, shops, malls, and factories—shuttered. Many of the nation’s largest employers and tens of thousands of small businesses faced ruin. Over 22 million American jobs were lost. The extreme uncertainty led to some of the largest daily drops ever in the stock market. Nick Timiraos, the Wall Street Journal’s chief economics correspondent, draws on extensive interviews to detail the tense meetings, late night phone calls, and crucial video conferences behind the largest, swiftest U.S. economic policy response since World War II. Trillion Dollar Triage goes inside the Federal Reserve, one of the country’s most important and least understood institutions, to chronicle how its plainspoken chairman, Jay Powell, unleashed an unprecedented monetary barrage to keep the economy on life support. With the bleeding stemmed, the Fed faced a new challenge: How to nurture a recovery without unleashing an inflation-fueling, bubble-blowing money bomb? Trillion Dollar Triage is the definitive, gripping history of a creative and unprecedented battle to shield the American economy from the twin threats of a public health disaster and economic crisis. Economic theory and policy will never be the same.

Download or read book The Great Money Bubble written by David Stockman and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I urge everyone to read this important new book.”—Ron Paul, Host of Ron Paul Liberty Report Americans are facing sticker shock at every turn: from the gas pump to the grocery store and every kind of consumer service. But the eye-popping price increases are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the threat to the country’s economic recovery. Inflation showers windfalls on the rich while penalizing workers, savers, retirees, small businesses, and most of Main Street economic life. New York Times bestselling author and former investment manager David A. Stockman, who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan, explains the roots of today’s runaway inflation so investors at all levels can calibrate their financial strategies to survive and thrive despite economic uncertainty. The Great Money Bubble covers the entire economic landscape, including: Why the rising price of assets is far more dangerous than rising consumer prices The inside story on stock market manipulations and the effects of ultracheap debt Why real estate is no longer a guaranteed inflationary hedge Stockman’s four-step strategy to protect your savings and portfolio After spearheading the economic policy for the Reagan Revolution, Stockman worked on Wall Street at the highest levels, and is now an adviser to professional investors. With this book, readers at all investment levels can have access to his groundbreaking financial advice.

Download or read book The Great Crash 1929 written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, with an introduction by economist James K. Galbraith Of John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash 1929, the Atlantic Monthly said: "Economic writings are seldom notable for their entertainment value, but this book is. Galbraith's prose has grace and wit, and he distills a good deal of sardonic fun from the whopping errors of the nation's oracles and the wondrous antics of the financial community." Originally published in 1955, Galbraith's book became an instant bestseller, and in the years since its release it has become the unparalleled point of reference for readers looking to understand American financial history."

Download or read book Stock Market Response to Unexpected Macroeconomic News written by Mehdi Sadeghi and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between unexpected changes in macroeconomic variables and Australian stock returns over the period 1980-1991. The results suggest that stock returns are positively correlated with any surprise news in the current account deficit, the exchange rate and growth rate of real GDP, and negatively correlated with surprise news about the inflation rate and interest rates. Stock returns are also positively correlated with the unexpected unemployment rate and negatively correlated to revisions in the expected unemployment rate. The results furthermore suggest that market portfolios can detect the impact of common economic shocks better than the portfolios of the two main sub-sectors of the market.

Download or read book Can the Performance of the Stock Market be Explained by Inflation Coupled with Our Tax System written by Marcelle Arak and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Stock Prices and Economic News written by Douglas K. Pearce and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the daily response of stock prices to announcements about the money supply, inflation, real economic activity, and the discountrate. Except for the discount rate, survey data on market participants' expectations of these announcements are used to identify the unexpected component of the announcements in order to test the efficient markets hypothesis that only the unexpected part of any announcement, the surprise, moves stock prices. The empirical results support this hypothesis and indicate further that surprises related to monetary policy significantly affect stock prices. There is only limited evidence of an impact from inflation surprises and no evidence of an impact from real activity surprises on the announcement days. There is also only weak evidence of stock price responses to surprises beyond the announcement day.