is derived from policy-makers' preferences about inflation outcomes, we first show that downside risks to price stability … future inflation can provide insurance against the materialisation of such upside risks. …

interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …

As inflation rates in the United States decline, analysts are asking if there are economic reasons to hold the rates at … levels above zero. Previous studies of whether inflation greases the wheels of the labor market ignore inflation's potential … allows the benefits of inflation (downward wage flexibility) to be separated from disruptive uncertainty about inflation rate …

interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …

Against the difficult background of analysing aggregated data in this paper core inflation in the euro area is … misleading indicator for monetary policy in the euro area. We furthermore compare our core inflation measure to the wide … coincident indicator of HICP inflation. Assessing the robustness of our core inflation measure we carefully conclude that it …

idiosyncratic price shocks. Core inflation indicators for the euro area are thus of utmost interest. Based on euro area-wide data … core inflation in this paper is analyzed by means of an indicator derived from the generalized dynamic factor model. This … indicator reveals that HICP inflation strongly exaggerated both the decline as well as the increase in the price trend in 1999 …

This paper considers a sticky price model with a cash-in-advance constraint where agents forecast inflation rates with …. While average output and inflation result the same as under rational expectations, higher moments differ substantially …: output and inflation show persistence, inflation responds sluggishly to nominal disturbances, and the dynamic correlations of …

This paper investigates the accuracy and heterogeneity of output growth and inflation forecasts during the current and …

This paper investigates the accuracy and heterogeneity of output growth and inflation forecasts during the current and …

This paper considers a sticky price model with a cash-in-advance constraint where agents forecast inflation rates with …. While average output and inflation result the same as under rational expectations, higher moments differ substantially …: output and inflation show persistence, inflation responds sluggishly to nominal disturbances, and the dynamic correlations of …