datasets collected in a period with relatively low and stable inflation. First, price changes are infrequent in the core … change is smaller, but nevertheless larger than inflation. Third, price setting is mildly state-dependent: the probability of … in aggregate inflation, which instead mainly reflected shifts in the average size of price changes. Consistent with …

In this paper we model monthly UK inflation and find that there is some small but significant autocorrelation …, particularly at 12 months. We find that this autocorrelation in monthly inflation leads to significant persistence in the headline … annual inflation figure. A one-off shock to monthly inflation will have an effect on the headline figure equal to 10% of the …

inflation compared to industries with low-competition in the past few years. Further investigation shows that this …-competition have higher annual producer price inflation on average than those that are characterized with high-competition especially …

.e. whose price changes rarely) contain more information about medium term inflation developments than those of flexible price … inflation index indeed has a forward-looking component, as it has favorable inflation forecasting properties on the policy … horizon of 1-2 years to alternative inflation indicators (including core inflation). Both theoretical and empirical results …

In this paper, we examine the extent to which monetary policy should respond to movements in sectoral inflation rates … for different responses to inflation in different sectors outperforms a rule which just targets aggregate CPI, as does a … rule that responds only to non food and energy inflation. However, we find that the optimal sectoral rule only leads to a …