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

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Spain suffered high rates of inflation but inflation declined and by 1997 inflation … had fallen to approximately 2 percent. To fight inflation, Spain implemented austere monetary programs, joined the EMS in … 1989, enacted central bank autonomy in 1994, and introduced inflation targets in January 1995. Certainly, these and other …

and its implications for US output, hours and inflation. Second we evaluate the extent to which that responses can be …

to iid and autocorrelated money growth shocks, and decompose the inflation impact into 'intensive margin', 'extensive … inflation and output. The real effects are substantially larger if money growth is autocorrelated. In contrast, if we instead … impose a fixed menu cost specification, money growth shocks cause a sharp spike in inflation (via the selection component) so …

An exogenous oil price shock raises inflation and contracts output, similar to a negative productivity shock. In the … standard New Keynesian model, however, this does not generate a tradeoff between inflation and output gap volatility: under a … strict inflation targeting policy, the output decline is exactly equal to the efficient output contraction in response to the …

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

Emerging economies with inflation targets (IT) face a dilemma between fulfilling the theoretical conditions of "strict …

dynamics of inflation depend on real marginal costs and on a measure of resource underutilization. …

We test the Barro-Gordon model extended to allow for persistence in unemployment. First, we build an index of central … 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 …