indicator. We find that inflation rates of both index of CPI are explained by the inflation rate of wholesale prices. For both …

To select the best leading indicators for predicting short-term inflation, an extensive number of economic variables is …

This paper assesses the impact of oil price changes on Spanish and euro area consumer price inflation. We find … oil price fluctuations are a major driver of inflation variability. The impact on Spanish inflation is found to be …

and sometimes the unconditional means of the nominal rate, inflation and the output gap are strongly affected by …

bank independence and measures of persistence, and then we compare them with inflation performance in OECD countries. Our … of inflation. …

Inflation-indexed bonds are fixed-income securities whose nominal cash flows are adjusted to an inflation index. In … countries where these securities exist, inflation expectations are sometimes estimated as the spread between the nominal yield … the same issuer. However, this indicator known as the break-even rate, may estimate inflation expectations with some …

Political Science on June 4th. It starts by asking what factors have been behind the remarkable retreat of inflation that has …

provincial inflation divergences and relative price shifts. Inflation differentials are found to be small (the range is less than …

orientation of macroeconomic policies - and of monetary policies in particular - to achieving lower inflation rates. This has led … to a move from low inflation to price stability in a number of countries and, in particular, in Spain. The purpose of … from achieving inflation rates which are low enough to be considered consistent with a situation of price stability. …