the government cannot prevent a speculative attack, it can affect its timing. The longer the delay, the higher inflation …

Following the Asian financial crisis in 1997-98, a number of Asian central banks adopted inflation targeting. We … explore how successful this framework has been by looking at the persistence of inflation, as measured by the sum of the … coefficients in an autoregressive model for inflation, using a median unbiased estimator and bootstrapped confidence bands. We find …

Contrary to the claims of Pomeranz, Parthasarathi and other ‘world historians’, the prosperous parts of Asia between …. The ‘Great Divergence’ between Europe and Asia was already well underway before 1800. …

We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU … is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices …

accurate forecasts. We use the model to study the pass-through of an oil shock and to study the evolution of inflation during …