inflation and output dynamics in the United States. In particular, I find that real money balance effects are quantitatively … shock and the supply side effects of monetary policy. Second, the existence of real money balance effects causes higher …

We study a model with repeated moral hazard where financial contracts are not fully indexed to inflation because … economies with higher price-level uncertainty are less vulnerable to a price shock of a given magnitude, that is, aggregate …

-traded-goods inflation, since prices are found to be more sticky in this production sector, but those gains come at the cost of substantially … estimated model for the Canadian economy, with a strict inflation-targeting rule where the central bank reacts to the next … period's expected deviation from the inflation target and does not target the output gap. …

. Compared to the historical inflation targeting rule, an optimal price level targeting regime substantially reduces the welfare … also better than the optimal inflation targeting rule in minimizing the distortion generated by the presence of nominal …

In this paper, the authors propose a measure of underlying inflation for Canada obtained from estimating a monthly … distort the signal in many other measures of underlying inflation, and appears to capture price movements that are indicative … measures of underlying inflation monitored by the Bank of Canada. …

inflation. The analysis extends Elwood’s (1998) framework by incorporating in the model an inflation-threshold process that can …, depending on the level of inflation: negative shocks are more detrimental when inflation is high, and positive shocks are more … persistent when inflation is low. …

The author surveys recent articles on the costs and benefits of price-level targeting versus inflation targeting … how price-level targeting affects the short-run trade-off between output and inflation variability by influencing … expectations of future inflation. The author looks at the implications of this argument for assigning an objective based on price …