Learn about value deflation where businesses reduce product quality or size instead of raising prices, affecting consumption ...

Deflation causes prices to drop, reducing company profits and investment returns. Widespread deflation can lead to job losses and lower wages, impacting consumer spending. Investors should monitor ...

Deflation has persisted in Japan for almost a decade. The consumer price index has fallen for five consecutive years since 1998, and GDP deflator figures indicate a decline in constant prices over a ...

With European inflation declining to 0.3 per cent and US inflation slowing, a spectre now haunts the Western world. Deflation, The Economist recently proclaimed, is a “pernicious threat” and “the ...

Prices have continued to fall in Japan over a lengthy period of more than 10 years. This project will use microeconomic price data to elucidate the mechanisms of long-term deflation in Japan and ...