the shift towards reduced inflation regimes in our sample of countries. Finally, we notice that the distinction between …

This paper aims to show why Irving Fisher’s own data on interest rates and inflation in New York, London, Paris, Berlin … changes in inflation, not even in the long run. In Fisher’s data, interest rates have more persistence than inflation and … change less than inflation over time. The Fisher effect is a misnomer unless it is taken to refer to what Fisher actually …

By estimating a staggered price model over the period 1980q1-2010q2, this paper documents that, after the euro … changeover, Italian retailers have increased the number of price adjustments, which has translated into a higher inflation rate …

independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible … country’s inflation performance. Examining a cross-section of up to 69 countries, we are able to show that granting a central … bank more autonomy does not necessarily lead to better inflation performance. To lower inflation by increasing independence …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … dynamic panel including annual data for 119 countries over the period 1970-2010, and also carry out multivariate Granger … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

This study evaluates the role market competition plays in determining inflation based on sector-level data from OECD … countries. In theory, trade openness can affect inflation through changes in market competitiveness and productivity … of market competition. This study shows that inflation decreases with greater market competitiveness even after …

networks. Starting with country-level data, we find that both producer price and consumer price inflation rates move more …

While the financial protection measures enacted by the ECB and the community of Eurozone members have calmed financial … markets, they have left the competitiveness problem of the Eurozone’s southern countries and France unresolved. The paper … compares price inflation before the crisis with the necessary and actual price cuts that have taken place since the outbreak of …

the period from 1994 to 2010 and including 417 manufacturing sectors, the main finding emerging from this empirical … import prices only to a small extent, it may have a substantial impact on inflation, as it exerts a sizeable impact on the …

This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the … policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main findings are as follows. Steady-state inflation and … inflation uncertainty have declined steadily since the inception of EMU, whilst short-run uncertainty has increased, mainly …