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Laurence M. Ball:
2025
Title: The Rise and Retreat of US Inflation: An Update
Series: Working Paper No. 2025/094
Date: May 16, 2025
Subject: Energy pricing Expenditure Inflation Labor Labor markets Prices
2024
Title: Did the U.S. Really Grow Out of Its World War II Debt?
Series: Working Paper No. 2024/005
Date: January 12, 2024
Subject: External debt Financial services Fiscal policy Fiscal stance Inflation Interest payments Prices Public debt Real interest rates
2023
Title: Weighted Median Inflation Around the World: A Measure of Core Inflation
Series: Working Paper No. 2023/044
Date: February 24, 2023
2022
Title: Understanding U.S. Inflation During the COVID Era
Series: Working Paper No. 2022/208
Date: October 28, 2022
Notes: Online Appendix
2021
Title: Measuring U.S. Core Inflation: The Stress Test of COVID-19
Series: Working Paper No. 2021/291
Date: December 17, 2021
Subject: Consumer price indexes COVID-19 Deflation Health Inflation Labor Prices Unemployment
2015
Title: A Phillips Curve with Anchored Expectations and Short-Term Unemployment
Series: Working Paper No. 2015/039
Date: February 25, 2015
Subject: Deflation Economic forecasting Financial crises Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 Inflation Labor Prices Unemployment Unemployment rate
2014
Title: The Case for a Long-Run Inflation Target of Four Percent
Series: Working Paper No. 2014/092
Date: June 9, 2014
Subject: Banking Financial services Inflation Inflation targeting Monetary policy Prices Real interest rates Zero lower bound
Title: Do Forecasters Believe in Okun’s Law? An Assessment of Unemployment and Output Forecasts
Series: Working Paper No. 2014/024
Date: February 10, 2014
Subject: Financial crises GDP forecasting Global financial crisis of 2008-2009 Labor National accounts Unemployment Unemployment rate
2013
Title: The Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation
Series: Working Paper No. 2013/151
Date: June 21, 2013
Subject: Fiscal consolidation Fiscal policy Income Income distribution Income inequality Labor National accounts Personal income Unemployment
Title: Okun's Law: Fit at 50?
Series: Working Paper No. 2013/010
Date: January 14, 2013
Subject: Employment Employment protection Labor Output gap Production Unemployment Unemployment rate
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