The following are the key drivers for a low inflation outlook in Australia;
• Health insurance - while consistently growing above 6 per cent in recent years, UBS believes that it drop to 4 to 5 per cent due to regulatory and political pressure.
• Utilities - inflation growth has been motoring along at double digit levels for several years. Weaker demand growth and stronger regulators should see this slip to a more moderate 4 to 5 per cent.
• Wages - Despite a relatively firm jobs market, wages growth has seen a dramatic slowing over the past 2 years, from almost 4 per cent in 2012 to just over 2 per cent at the end of 2015. UBS notes this slowdown is not related to Australia's rebalancing away from high wage to low wage jobs. This is continues to put downward pressure on economy-wide labour income growth driving disinflation in "non-tradable" sectors, largely services, from takeaway food, housing, clothing to autos services.
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New entrants such as Zara, Uniqlo, H&M and others are likely to keep downward pressure on prices. UBS predicted prices will persist to fall between 0.5% and 1% in the coming years.
• Communications - mobile and data prices has been driven down by competition between firms. Historically 1- 2 %inflation collapsing to -6%. UBS predicts that the prices are likely to continue to fall between 2% and 3% in the coming years.
• General insurance - competition from online entrants and regulatory pressure on third party insurance has kept a lid on premiums. Inflation is expected to drop from 4 per cent to under 2 per cent in the medium term by UBS
• Public transport –this sector had been growing at 4%, UBS reported that a combination of restructuring and political pressure should see inflation
Also to adjust pending contracts and initiate new pensions which have to take into account the effect of inflation. Less well-off people and elderly are more vulnerable to inflation as it affects their investment income and social benefits like pensions. Canada’s annual rate of inflation, which had reached a high of 12.5 per cent in 1981, has averaged 2 per cent since 1991. For example, if the cost of the consumer basket rises, say, from $100 in 2007 to $102 in 2008, the average annual rate of inflation for 2008 is 2 per cent. People generally believed that if the inflation rate was higher than normal in the past so they will expect it to be higher in the future than anticipated whereas some takes in consideration the past along with current economic indicators, such as the current inflation rate and current economic policies, to anticipate its future performance. Over the long term, the earnings margins of corporations are inflationary and so are the wage gains of workers. According to rational expectations, attempts to reduce unemployment will only result in higher
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Empirical literature examining the determinants of inflation has mostly viewed it as a monetary phenomenon. This viewpoint basically stems from Milton Friedman’s famous dictum that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. However, the conjecture of Friedman has recently come under attack. In fact, there appears to be virtually no correlation between money growth and inflation since the early 1980s. This leads to evolution of the argument known as Fiscal Theory of Price Level (FTPL). To capture the nonmonetary aspects of inflation, a number of economists investigate the main political, institutional and economic determinants of inflation across countries and over time. For instance, Aisen and Veiga (2006) conclude that political instability leads to higher inflation. Their study reveals that an additional government crises and a cabinet change which are used as proxy for measuring political instability raise inflation rate by 16.1% and 9.1% respectively. In another study, Aisen and Veiga (2008) extend their work to further analyze the effect of political instability, social polarization and the quality of institutions on inflation volatility. They argue that politically unstable and socially polarized countries with weak institutions are more exposed to political shocks that result in discontinuous monetary and fiscal policies which in turn result in higher inflation volatility. The intuition is that rising inflation instability creates frictions on market which reduces economic efficiency and causes the prevailing price in the economy to deviate from the price which would otherwise have been determined in presence of stable price level. They also provide evidence that greater independence of the Central Bank leads...
In this paper, I will explore the definition of monetary policy, the objectives of the monetary and the monetary policy bases.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that inflation, as measured by the year-to-year change in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U), is projected to decline from 2.8% this year to 2.3% next year. Rates of inflation for food and energy prices, which increased during the first half of this year are expected to be moderate. This should keeping overall inflation lower than in the recent past. In addition, the underlying rate of consumer price inflation is expected to be relatively stable, averaging slightly above 2% over the next year and a half (Congressional Budget Office [CBO], 2007).
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The idea of the globalisation of Australian businesses, the process where businesses develop themselves internationally is one of the main issues in our current society. The concept of globalisation has occurred due to many factors, such as reduced trade barriers, a reduction in tariffs and quotas, new developments in technology and also new innovations in transportation technology. These factors that have caused globalisation can result in many consequences, both positive and negative. These consequences are free trade caused by a reduction in tariffs and environmental costs such as pollution caused by factories and greenhouse gasses causing global warming.
Australia has had one of the most outstanding economies of the world in recent years - competitive, open and vibrant. The nation’s high economic performance stems from effective economic management and ongoing structural reform. Australia has a competitive and dynamic private sector and a skilled, flexible workforce. It also has a comprehensive economic policy framework in place. The economy is globally competitive and remains an attractive destination for investment. Australia has a sound, stable and modern institutional structure that provides certainty to businesses. For long time, Australia is a stable democratic country with strong growth, low inflation and low interest rate.(Ning)
Inflation is defined as an increase in the expected price level and has been the signal for an improving economy, but it has also weakened an economy due to the unemployment it usually produces which usually hurts the Middle class the most. A healthy rate of inflation means an expanding economy due to higher tax revenues for the government and higher wages for businesses that are booming due to the high demand of their products. But if inflation surpasses of what is expected than employer will have to reduce wages to meet these new prices. When the Federal Reserve creates inflation most argue that this is robbing people of the money that they have saved because they have to use it due to the rise in prices. Printing
Inflation; ‘a situation in which prices rise in order to keep up with increased production costs… result[ing] [in] the purchasing power of money fall[ing]’ (Collin:101) is quickly becoming a problem for the government of the United Kingdom in these post-recession years. The economic recovery, essential to the wellbeing of the British economy, may be in jeopardy as inflation continues to rise, reducing the purchasing power of the public. This, in turn, reduces demand for goods and services, and could potentially plummet the UK back into recession. This essay discusses the causes of inflation, policy options available to the UK government and the Bank of England (the central bank of the UK responsible for monetary policy), and the effects they may potentially have on the UK recovery.
There are many factors that affect the economy, inflation is one of them. Basically inflation is risingin priceof general goods and services above a period.As we see value of money is not valuable for the next years due to inflation. Today every country has facing inflationary condition in their economy.GDP deflator is a basictool that tells the price level of final goods and services domestically produced in an economy.GDP is stand for gross domestic product final value of goods and services, Furthermore GDP deflator shows that how much a change in the base year's GDP relies upon changes in the price level. . Inflation in contrast, how speedy the average prices intensity is increases or changes above the period so the inflation rate define the annual percentage rate changes in the level of price is as measure by GDP deflator more over GDP deflator has a advantage on consumer price index because it isn’t only based on a fixed basket of goods and services. It’s a most effective inflation tool to identify the changes in consumer consumption and newly produced goods and service are reflected by this deflator. Consumer price index (CPI) is also measure the adjusting the economic data it can also be eliminate the effects of inflation, through dividing a nominal quantity by price index to state the real quantity in term.
Inflation is the rate at which the purchasing power of currency is falling, consequently, the general level of prices for goods and services is rising. Central banks endeavor to point of confinement inflation, and maintain a strategic distance from collapse i.e. deflation, with a specific end goal to keep the economy running smoothly.
Inflation is one of the most important economic issues in the world. It can be defined as the price of goods and services rising over monthly or yearly. Inflation leads to a decline in the value of money, it means that we cannot buy something at a price that same as before. This situation will increase our cost of living.