fixes, a reasonably durable regime. However, most of the new stability is due to countries that float with an inflation … target. Though a few have left to join the Eurozone, no country has yet abandoned an inflation targeting regime under duress …. Inflation targeting now represents a serious alternative to a hard exchange rate fix for small economies seeking monetary …

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 …

which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model …

natural rate of unemployment. In addition, because of differential inflation across countries, real exchange rates become …

has been a worsening in the trade-off between unemployment and inflation. The poor unemployment/inflation trade-off is due … to the neglect of skill training and education (causing skill shortages) and to the build-up of long-term unemployment … (which does little to restrain inflation). …

model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …

inflation and a permanent reduction in the level of unemployment. In short, we derive a microfounded long-run downward …

precommit. This implies that a variation of the policy maker's degree of inflation aversion does not have a systematic effect on … maker's inflation aversion may have a systematic effect on equilibrium employment even if agents have rational expectations …

monetary policy usually affects both inflation and unemployment, even when all structural parameters of the economy and of … features, such as the degree of centralization of wage bargaining, labour unions' inflation aversion and the degree of … suggests that the switch to a monetary union is likely to make labor uur unions more aggressive, increasing unemployment …

, or of central bank conservativeness are associated with lower unemployment and inflation. However the forward shifting of … by governments concerned with the costs of inflation and unemployment, as well as with redistribution to particular … changes in either labour taxes or in unemployment benefits to labours costs is larger the higher are those institutional …