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  2. Inflation - Wikipedia

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    Inflation rates among members of the International Monetary Fund in April 2024 UK and US monthly inflation rates from January 1989 [1] [2] In economics, inflation is a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy. This is usually measured using a consumer price index (CPI).

  3. Cosmic inflation - Wikipedia

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    The bubble collision problem was solved by Andrei Linde [61] and independently by Andreas Albrecht and Paul Steinhardt [62] in a model named new inflation or slow-roll inflation (Guth's model then became known as old inflation). In this model, instead of tunneling out of a false vacuum state, inflation occurred by a scalar field rolling down a ...

  4. Inflationary epoch - Wikipedia

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    Most inflationary models propose a scalar field called the inflaton field, with properties necessary for having (at least) two vacuum states. It is not known exactly when the inflationary epoch ended, but it is thought to have been between 10 −33 and 10 −32 seconds after the Big Bang. The rapid expansion of space meant that any potential ...

  5. Phillips curve - Wikipedia

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    When an inflationary surprise occurs, workers are fooled into accepting lower pay because they do not see the fall in real wages right away. Firms hire them because they see the inflation as allowing higher profits for given nominal wages. This is a movement along the Phillips curve as with change A. Eventually, workers discover that real wages ...

  6. Inflation in India - Wikipedia

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    Historically, from 1960 until 2023, the annual inflation rate in India averaged 7.37% reaching an all-time high of 28.60% in 1974 and a record low of -7.63% in 1976. The inflation rate for Primary Articles is currently at 9.8% (as of 2012). This breaks down into a rate 7.3% for Food, 9.6% for Non-Food Agriculturals, and 26.6% for Mining Products.

  7. Starobinsky inflation - Wikipedia

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    Starobinsky inflation is a modification of general relativity used to explain cosmological inflation. It was the first model to describe how the universe could have gone through an extremely rapid period of exponential expansion.

  8. Inflationary bias - Wikipedia

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    Inflationary bias is the outcome of discretionary monetary policy that leads to a higher than optimal level of inflation. Depending on the way expectations are formed in the private sector of the economy, there may or may not be a transitory income increase.

  9. Inflation accounting - Wikipedia

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    It is the inflation accounting model required in International Financial Reporting Standards implemented in 174 countries. Process of Inflation Accounting Inflation Accounting refers to the process of adjusting the financial statements of a company to show the real financial picture of the company during the inflationary period. Inflation ...