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	Inflation - Wikipedia
		Heute wird der Begriff Inflation oft auch für andauerende, gesamtwirtschaftliche Preisniveauerhöhungen verwendet.
		Nach der Geschwindigkeit kann eine Inflation auch unterschieden werden: Schleichende, trabende und galoppierende Inflation.
		Inflation (von lat.: "das Sich-Aufblasen; das Aufschwellen") bezeichnet in der Volkswirtschaftslehre eine andauernde Geldentwertung.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inflation (1206 words)

	Cost push inflation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cost-push inflation or supply-shock inflation is a type of inflation caused by large increases in the cost of important goods or services where no suitable alternative is available.
		It is argued that this inflation resulted from increases in the cost of petroleum imposed by the member states of OPEC.
		It is the costs of such a recession that likely causes governments and Central Banks to allow a supply shock to result in inflation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cost_push_inflation (440 words)

	AmosWEB: Encyclonomic WEBpedia: INFLATION*
		Inflation is a key macroeconomic issue that has been at the forefront of modern macroeconomic analysis since the stagflation-dominated 1970s.
		As indicated in the accompanying graph, inflation, measured by the inflation rate, tends to vary over the course of business-cycle activity, rising during expansions and falling during contractions.
		Inflation attracts the interest of economists, policy makers, and regular everyday ambling folks for a couple of reasons: uncertainty and haphazard redistribution.
	www.amosweb.com /cgi-bin/wpd.pl?fcd=dsp&key=inflation (2497 words)

	Online Learning Center
		Inflation is an increase in the general level of prices in the economy; a decline in the level of prices is deflation.
		The economic cost is the unproduced output (or the GDP gap).
		Inflation may also affect the total output of the economy but economists disagree over whether it is likely to expand or contract total output.
	www.mhhe.com /economics/mcconnell/student/olc/outline08.htm (1054 words)

	cost push inflation and Stock Trading at TradeStars + Stock Trading
		The cost push inflation relationship, of course is not as simple as North American cost push inflation Securities Administrators Association, Inc. issued a report that describes the major problems and abuses in the cost push inflation cost push inflation.
		The NASDs release of July 29, 1999, describes a cost push inflation NASD rule proposal that was approved by the SEC on July 10, 2000.
		cost push inflation is available at your own pace.
	www.tradestars.com /content/cost-push-inflation.asp (147 words)

	RBI must focus only on inflation
		Thus a fixed rule is capable of delivering a steady inflation rate (and even zero inflation), while a feedback rule, in the face of cost-push pressures, leaves the inflation rate free to rise and fall at the whims of whichever group that believes a temporary advantage is available in pushing up its price.
		Since 1973, cost-push inflation had its origins in cost increases.
		Cost shocks such as the oil-price hike become inflationary if they are accommodated by an increase in the quantity of money.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19980805/21755164.html (782 words)

	Cost-Push Inflation Versus Demand-Pull Inflation
		As a result, the increased costs are passed on to consumers, causing a rise in the general price level (inflation).
		This could occur because of scarcity of raw materials, an increase in the cost of labor and/or an increase in the cost of importing raw materials and labor (if the they are overseas), which is caused by a depreciation in their home currency.
		Demand-Pull Inflation Demand-pull inflation occurs when there is an increase in aggregate demand, categorized by the four sections of the macroeconomy: households, businesses, governments and foreign buyers.
	www.investopedia.com /articles/05/012005.asp (1357 words)

	Inflation and the Phillips Curve
		The corresponding "solutions" to the inflation problem are also different: "demand-pull" theorists concentrate on bringing down demand by, for example, reducing government expenditure, while "cost-pushers" call for the alleviation of wage pressure by institutional reform or incomes policies.
		However, as Lerner (1951, 1972) stresses, the blame for inflation need not be placed squarely on the shoulders of workers alone: a push for profits by owners will be enough to initiate this kind of price-wage inflation spiral.
		Thus, actual inflation is not only a function of the unemployment level in the economy, it is also a function of the distribution of that unemployment across industries.
	cepa.newschool.edu /het/essays/keynes/inflation.htm (5546 words)

	Tutor2u - Cost Push Inflation
		Cost push inflation occurs when firms increase prices to maintain or protect profit margins after experiencing a rise in their costs of production.
		Firms may decide not to pass on this to their customers (they may be able to achieve some cost savings in other areas of the business) but in the long run - wage inflation does tend to move closely in line with general price inflation in the economy.
		Cost inflation is more likely when unemployment is falling to low levels.
	www.tutor2u.net /economics/content/topics/inflation/cost_push_inflation.htm (509 words)

	Outlook December 2003 (text version)
		For example, in the coming years, it may be possible that certain components of cost-push inflation may be eliminated or at least weakened.
		The other major type of inflation, cost-push inflation, is characterized by price increases caused by sharp increases in production costs.
		Demand-pull inflation has been characterized as the type of inflation that results when “too many dollars are chasing too few goods.&; A recent example of this type of inflation was the rapid increase in housing prices in California’s Silicon Valley during the Internet bubble of the 1990s.
	www.cobank.com /publications/outlook_dec03.htm (1842 words)

	Inflation Is No Longer a Problem In the Uk Deflation Is? Theory of inflation.
		Many different circumstances can lead to cost push inflation, the most common of these used to be wages being driven up excessive amounts by aggressive and powerful trade unions, this has not been such an issue recently due to the Thatcherite reforms in the 1980&.
		Cost-push inflation is another Keynesian version of inflation where it is shifts in aggregate supply, not aggregate demand, which cause the inflation.
		If inflation has been 3% in the past then it is very unlikely that the employees will expect 10% inflation, it will only be if there have been these levels of inflation in the past.
	www.coursework.info /i/24898.html (705 words)

	cost-push inflation - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about cost-push inflation
		The world oil price increase in 1974 was a major cause of cost-push inflation.
		Theory of inflation which states that inflation is caused by increases in the costs of production.
		A rise in wages, profit levels, or product inputs to the firm will push up its costs.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /cost-push%20inflation (116 words)

	Inflation as supplied by EagleTraders.com
		Inflation exists in a country whenever the supply of money and of bank deposits circulating through checks, so-called deposit currency, increases relatively to the demand for media of exchange in such a way as to bring about a rise in the general price level (Dr. Edwin W. Kemmerer).
		Both types of inflations may be effectively controlled by conservative monetary and fiscal policies; the "revival of monetary policy" in recent years, for example, refers to the greater effectiveness of restrictive monetary policy when bank credit is deeply involved in financing an inflation.
		Credit inflation is a condition of excessive expansion of commercial bank credit, resulting in excessive volume of bank deposits relative to supply of factors, output, and inventories.
	www.eagletraders.com /advice/securities/inflation.htm (4223 words)

	Inflation - Notes
		Cost-push Inflation occurs when a firm passes on an increase in production costs to the consumer.
		Inflation means the value of money is falling because prices keep rising.
		After twelve months the price of good items in the basket may have risen by 25 per cent and that of housing by 20 per cent while the cost of transport is unchanged.
	bized.ac.uk /learn/economics/govpol/macrotargets/notes/inflation.htm (773 words)

	cost-push inflation Definition
		In general, there are three factors that could contribute to cost-push inflation: rising wages, increases in corporate taxes, and imported inflation (when imported raw or partly-finished goods become more expensive, often as a result of currency depreciation).
		For inflation to be cost-push in nature, increases in input prices must affect a large proportion of the country's producers, so as to be able to push up the general price level.
		Learn the basics about the Federal Reserve, The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), and how monetary policy is used to target interest rates to avoid inflation and slow economic growth.
	www.investorwords.com /1162/cost_push_inflation.html (212 words)

	Homework 4 Key, PA Economics S01
		Cost-push inflation is of particular interest in the US today because of all the disruptions that have occurred in oil supplies.
		Cost-push inflation is inflation that is caused by economy-wide rises in the cost of production.
		This new weakness in Ag S can also cause unemployment as the rise in cost of production leads to a rise in prices that reduces Quantity Demanded and therefore decreases labor demand (remember that the demand for labor is a derived demand).
	www.public.asu.edu /~hcampbel/504ans3.html (1394 words)

	Tutor2u - Economic Policies to Control Inflation
		The key to controlling inflation in the long run is for the authorities to keep control of aggregate demand (through fiscal and monetary policy) and at the same time seek to achieve improvements to the supply side of the economy.
		The overall inflation measure is the result of millions of pricing decisions made by businesses large and small.
		Furthermore, the nature of the inflation process makes it very difficult to forecast, even when inflationary conditions in the economy appear to be benign.
	www.tutor2u.net /economics/content/topics/inflation/controlling_inflation.htm (1048 words)

	Wages, inflation and Reserve Bank myths
		The 1973 OPEC oil hike is often cited as a graphic example of cost-push inflation and the cause of the Western world’s inflationary woes of the 1970s.
		But as the eminent economist Professor W. Hutt pointed out: “But if certain wages rates are pushed up, in the absence of inflation other wage rates and prices will fall, or a cumulative withholding of capacity elsewhere must follow”, meaning a rise in unemployment.
		In other words, inflation could only occur if the government expanded the money supply to underwrite the wage push.
	www.brookesnews.com /042903rbajobs.html (1088 words)

	The Causes of Inflation [ Biz/ed Virtual Developing Country ]
		The non- monetarists also suggest that one of the main causal factors of inflation is an increase in the costs of the factors of production.
		They argue that inflation is caused by the amount of money in the economy and hence the spending power of the population exceeding the capacity of the country to produce goods and services.
		This may occur if there are increases in the costs of the factor inputs or if there is a supply shock such as a drought.
	www.bized.ac.uk /virtual/dc/copper/theory/th17.htm (1047 words)

	Money and Inflation
		Cost push inflation is a monetary phenomenon since it can’t occur without the monetary authorities pursuing an accommodating policy of a higher money growth rate
		Cost-push inflation – Inflation that occurs because of the push by workers to obtain higher wages or from negative supply shocks
		Cost push inflation is associated with unemployment above the natural rate
	garnet.acns.fsu.edu /~fdv3471/fmbmp26.html (1011 words)

	What are some of the factors that contribute to a rise in inflation? (10/2002)
		Inflation rates and speculation about future inflation are mentioned so often in the media that it's important to know some basics about inflation.
		Inflation is defined as a rise in the general price level.
		The PCE price index is published by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and measures inflation across the basket of goods purchased by households.
	www.frbsf.org /education/activities/drecon/2002/0210.html (497 words)

	Chapter Outline
		In the short run we assume that people form their expectations of future inflation on the basis of previous and present rates of inflation and only gradually change their expectations and wage demands.
		Fully anticipated inflation by labor in the nominal wage demands of workers generates a vertical Phillips Curve.
		Both low inflation and low unemployment are major goals.
	www.allenisd.org /facstaff2.nsf/Pages/1BCC414557ED7F8786256C6F0083AC18 (544 words)

	Chapter 26: Money and Inflation
		Cost-push inflation can continue only if the government is using money supply growth to shift the AD curve.
		Inflation and the Time Value of Money CPI Calculator This is another Dismal Scientist calculator that allows you to compare the values of money across time, adjusting for the effects of inflation.
		MiltonFriedman once said, "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." And amazing, Keynesians and Monetarist agree that persistent, continual increases in the price level can only be caused by persistent, continual increases in the money supply.
	www.oswego.edu /~edunne/340chapter26.html (1448 words)

	cost-push inflation
		inflation in which prices increase as a result of increased production costs, as labor and parts, even when demand remains the same.
	www.infoplease.com /ipd/A0389422.html (39 words)

	ThinkEconomics: Macroeconomic Phenomena in the AD/AS Model
		Cost push inflation is inflation caused by sustained or continual decreases in SR aggregate supply.
		Inflation (respectively, deflation) is a sustained increase (respectively, decrease) in the general price level over a period of time.
		Demand pull inflation is inflation caused by sustained or continual increases in aggregate demand.
	www.whitenova.com /thinkEconomics/simul.html (288 words)

	Cost-Push Inflation
		The combination of inflation and a falling level of output has come to be called “stagflation”
		A sustained rise in the price level caused by reductions in aggregate supply
	economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu /Aly/classes/powerpoint/ch7/sld016.htm (29 words)

	Re: Cost-push inflation
		definition: Inflation caused by a continually decreasing short run aggregate supply curve.
	daphne.palomar.edu /jose/_disc11/00000135.htm (12 words)

	Chapter 7. AGGREGATE DEMAND AND SUPPLY
		Because input owners may be slow to perceive the increases in their costs of living, they acquiesce in offering larger quantities of their inputs to the employers than they might if they were fully cognizant of the increases in their costs of living.
		If inflation has not been a problem recently and is not expected in the near future, when it does occur the SRAS may have a very shallow upward slope which diverges only slightly from the horizontal.
		The implicit costs are the opportunity costs of the firm's working capital which is tied up in inventory and thus not available to meet other expenses (payroll, energy bills, etc.) until inventory can be disposed of.
	facweb.furman.edu /~dstanford/macro/m7.htm (5072 words)

	Economic Review: Agriculture Faces Cost-push Inflation.(Brief Article)@ HighBeam Research
		The sustained inflation at home increases the cost of local inputs.
		Since no one outside the government accepts the authenticity of the official inflation figures the increase in support prices cannot be to that extent only.
		So is the cost of tractor and other mechanical inputs.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:62141299&refid=ink_tptd_mag (163 words)

	Eco 200 Lecture note - Fall 1999
		An increase in the cost of production (resulting from an increase in the price of a input such as, say, energy) will shift the AS curve to the left, raising the price level and reducing the level of output.
		The Phillips curve is negatively sloping line in a two-dimensional space with unemployment rate measured horizontally and an inflation measure depicted vertically.
		This tradeoff between inflation and unemployment has been studied by a number of economists including a British economist named Phillips.
	www.oswego.edu /~atri/lac/lec15m.htm (843 words)

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