A large literature in macroeconomics assumes a social objective function, W(pi,U), where inflation, pi, and … unemployment, U, are bads. This paper provides some of the first formal evidence for such an approach. It issues data on the … dollar value of a low inflation rate. It also examines the struture of happiness equations across countries and time. …

UK inflation varied greatly over 1865-1990, in response to many policy and exchange-rate regimes, two world wars and … each of these. Variables representative of most theories of inflation mattered empirically over the sample, yielding an …

Empirical models of inflation often incorporate equilibrium correction effects based upon levels of prices and input … permanent shifts in the markup factor through estimating an inflation equation that includes a time-varying intercept. The model …

of the system to one comprising inflation and relative prices. This is then estimated in I(1) space. An impulse response … on domestic inflation is moderated. This explains why the depreciation of sterling in 1992 left inflation unchanged. In … contrast, high real import prices in 1974 increased inflation because wage accommodation effects were absent. …

Standard open economy models predict that openness to trade should exert a positive effect on the slope of the output-inflation …

inflation dynamics in open economies, but previous studies have not made a distinction between fixed and floating exchange rate … driving output and inflation (the underlying theory requires that monetary shocks dominate). We calculate new measures of the …