forecasts, as oil price assumptions, to predict eurozone and Greek inflation rates and industrial production indices. The … capable of providing predictive gains for the eurozone core inflation rate and the Greek industrial production index, whereas … some gains are evident for the eurozone industrial production index and the Greek core inflation rate. However, in all …

für seine Wirtschaft. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Eurozone, deren ungelöste Probleme in einen neuen Kontext gestellt …

no country face a deflation. This minimum aggeragate inflation rate is 0.94% in the euro-11 countries and 1.13% in an … the Balassa model, the paper calculates a minimum aggregate inflation rate which is compatible with the requirement that …

The ECB's objective of medium-term inflation below 2 percent has been portrayed by critics as ambiguous, asymmetric … that: (1) in terms of guiding inflation expectations and policymaking, the current definition has functioned much as would … an inflation target centered on 1½-1¾ percent; (2) the absence of a specific (point) target for medium-term inflation has …

This paper introduces a global database that contains inflation series: (i) for a wide range of inflation measures … (headline, food, energy, and core consumer price inflation; producer price inflation; and gross domestic product deflator … available sources, our database constitutes a comprehensive, single source for inflation series. We illustrate the potential use …