inflation stability and whether, in the presence of financial frictions, the optimal outcome can be realized or approached more … inflation targeting cum exchange rate stabilization and a price-level targeting are more suitable rules in minimizing …

price setters to infer the central bank's future policy intentions, thereby making current inflation more responsive to … policy actions. This induces the central bank to pay more attention to inflation rather than output gap stabilization. Then …, transparency may be disadvantageous. It may actually be a policy-distorting straitjacket if the central bank enjoys low-inflation …

This paper studies the importance of money for inflation in the euro area. An inflation equation is derived from a … small model that combines the supply and demand for money with a Phillips curve and the assumption that inflation … expectations develop adaptively. The model's solution attributes an impact on inflation not to actual money growth but to its core …

We tackle two questions in this paper: In the sovereign debt crisis, what moves the euro area inflation outlook and has … the firm anchoring of medium to long-term inflation expectations been touched? Deriving densities from a new data set on … options on the euro area harmonized index of consumer prices provides us with the full distribution of inflation expectations …

employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation …