component of national inflation and disregarding the idiosyncratic one, we clean inflation from measurement error, discrepancies …This paper proposes an index of core inflation for the euro area which exploits information from a large panel of time …

Between 2013 and 2014, following the recession triggered by the sovereign debt crisis, euro-area inflation decreased … sharply. Although a fall in the inflation rate was to be expected, given the severity of the recession, professional … inflation, which was unaccounted for in forecasting models. We probe this explanation in the context of a simple backward …

Generalized Dynamic Factor Model to derive a set of core inflation indicators that, combining national with area-wide data, allow …-wide inflation once the information contained in area-wide data has been exploited, and whether it is useful, in order to track ECB …

This paper analyses the macroeconomic effects of a protracted period of low and falling inflation rates when monetary … terms (debt-deflation channel). In this scenario, even cost-push shocks that in normal circumstances would reduce inflation …

The empirical literature on the transmission of monetary policy to inflation in Italy has stressed the importance of … the exchange rate and, to some extent, of the demand channel; recently, the roles of inflation expectations and the fiscal … situation have been emphasized. This paper uses vector auto-regression to address this issue. The results suggest that inflation …

level, after controlling for inflation expectations, and whether it is concentrated among those firms that are more exposed …

Since 2013 the inflation rate in the euro area has fallen steadily, reaching all-time lows at the end of 2014. Market …-based measures of inflation expectations (such as inflation swaps) have also declined to extremely low levels, which suggests … increasing concern about the credibility of the ECB in maintaining price stability. Inflation releases have often surprised …

Although the concept of core inflation is apparently well defined and intuitively appealing, its practical usefulness … has often been questioned on at least two accounts: first, existing core inflation measures are by and large exclusively … justified. In this paper we propose an approach to build a benchmark measure of core inflation that aims to overcome those …