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 …

economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments that the flexible exchange rate has undermined real economic …

and inflation in the member countries. Stress in a country is defined as the difference between the country’s actual short …

individuals use simple rules of thumb (heuristics) to forecast the future inflation and output gap. We compare this model with the …

found to help rationalizing the hump-shaped response of inflation, without resorting to the counterfactual assumption of …

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 …

This paper investigates the relationship between inflation and inflation uncertainty in twelve EMU countries. A time …-varying GARCH model is estimated to distinguish between short-run and steady-state inflation uncertainty. The effects of the …-state inflation has generally remained stable, steady-state inflation uncertainty and inflation persistence have both increased, and …

-shaped relation between the membership size of MPCs and inflation; our results suggest that the lowest level of inflation is reached … at MPCs with about seven to ten members. Similar results are obtained for other measures, such as inflation variability …

sector inflation expectations. In contrast, opaque central banks limit their stabilization efforts to avoid disturbing … inflation expectations. As a result, they mute their interest rate response and no longer fully offset anticipated demand shocks …