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ECONOMIST Milton Friedman, in his famous explanatory definition, wrote that "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon". Such a definition will doubtless provide comfort to the government and validate its own monetary policy following yesterday's news that the UK's annual inflation rate last month fell below the Bank of England's 2per cent medium-term target for the first time in 21 months.
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A FEW months ago, I opined in this column about the skyrocketing increase in Britain's money supply and the fact that no-one seemed to be taking any notice. M4 money supply grew 14.5 per cent in the year to September - a 16-year high. The last time this occurred was during Nigel Lawson's boom which was followed by the John Major slump. Last Thursday, the Bank of England took notice and raised interest rates to 5 per cent. One reason cited by the monetary policy committee was a worry about that "rapid" monetary growth coinciding with "limited" spare production capacity across the economy, which is just the old definition of inflation I learned in Economics 101 - too much money chasing too few goods.
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Corruption is a cancer, which has not only eaten deep into the fabrics of the Nigeria polity, but also soiled the image and personality of every Nigerian. Therefore, the central thesis of this paper is not just to demonstrate that there is corruption in Nigeria, but also to uncover its causes, forms, nature and manifestations. By adopting this approach, it is hoped that it might help in readdressing and re-orientating the mind sets of both the leaders and followers towards becoming better Nigerians for the benefit of future generations. The paper starts by examining the theoretical foundation of corruption, cause, nature, manifestation and consequences. The paper concludes by positing that the war on graft could be won if adequate measures are followed to combat the challenges identifie...
...The first part analyses definitional issues, categorized corruption, explore some of th..... the inflation of government contracts in return for kickbacks; f...
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This paper aims to research the context within which sell-side financial analysts make decisions to use corporate non-financial information. Prior research has demonstrated that financial analysts take into account non-financial information in their analyses of firms, but knowledge is scarce about what determines their use of this information. Based on a survey conducted among Belgian financial analysts, we observe a significant negative association between the financial analysts' use of non-financial information and the earnings informativeness of a firm's financial statement information proxied by leverage and stock return volatility. We also find that a higher amount of non-financial information is used by less experienced financial analysts and by financial analysts covering a highe...
... et al., 2005), rather than a clear definition of non-financial information. The definition of 'n...The low levels of variance inflation factors (VIF) indicate that multicollinearity is n...
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BANKS are profiting from the savings crisis by raking in huge margins on investment-linked products that experts claim are being mis-sold. With conventional savings accounts failing to keep pace with inflation the UK's high street banks and building societies are making up to 12 per cent profit on the sale of structured products. The definition of structured products and the way they work can vary hugely. On the high street the typical plan offers 100 per cent capital protection plus a degree of upside in the value of a specified index (usually the FTSE 100) between an opening and a closing date, with five years the typical term.
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This study is the first study after Beenstock, Dickinson, and Khajuria (1986) that specifically identifies those factors that are most relevant to demand for life insurance and extends the coverage from 10 to 25 OECD countries. Furthermore, this is the first study in this area to use GMM estimation as a way of unraveling some of the statistical inconsistencies that one could have observed in the past studies owing to their use of OLS estimate. (The exception is Beck and Webb, 2003, who used the instrumental variables.) Furthermore, this study is the first study to conduct an empirical study of demand for life insurance for the OECD countries for the 1990s. The main conclusion of this article is that socioeconomic and product market factors play significant roles in isolation, but have e...
..., social spending, and anticipated inflation rate are found to influence the country's average ... of quasi-money (M2-M1) to the broad definition of money (M2). Foreign Market Share. High levels o...
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STERLING dropped yesterday to a five-month low against the euro, amid a seeming hardening of view that UK economic weakness might put back the timing of the first rise in benchmark interest rates from their record low. The euro climbed to about 88.2p during yesterday's session - its highest level since last October. It was last night holding above 88p - up about 0.2p on its pre-weekend close against the pound.
... 17-nation eurozone by declaring that "inflation rates..are now durably above the common definition...
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..., perceived as the main reason for inflation hitting 7.3% by year end, well outside its targete... higher economic growth will be, and by definition the higher the fight against poverty. . "There is ...
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Prospects remain for the economy to continue to grow at around 3%. The latest surveys show confidence in industry and among consumers at record levels. March industrial production was up by 7.1% on the year, retail sales volumes rose 5.6% and the unemployment rate has plunged to 4.3% from 5.4% a year earlier. The labour market is now considered to be very tight and likely to tighten even further. Contrary to historical experience, wages have not yet responded. The inflation rate has remained around 2% and the consensus forecast, somewhat unlikely, is for it to remain so in 2007. In its recent report, the OECD has given fulsome praise to the government's stewardship of the economy, which it deemed to be in excellent shape. It recommends measures to raise the supply of labour, for instanc...
... rate according to the national definition declined to 4.8% from 5.0% in February and 5.9% a ...
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ALL the Liberal Democrat and Conservative special advisers ('SPADS') were summoned to Downing Street on Wednesday for a meeting. With a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I looking down on them, the assembled SPADS were informed by the Prime Minister himself that if any of them were caught briefing against each other or anyone in the Government they'd be out. One of those present tells me that at that point there was a fearful silence. Everyone knew that Cameron, a former SPAD himself, meant what he said. When the David Laws story broke on Friday night, this discipline held. Nobody spoke out of turn.
... quite significantly but to use the definition of a non-business asset and the indexing - the linnk to inflation - to offset this rise in the rates. Certainly, it ...
