the widely held interpretation of the ECB as an inflation targeter—and a rather soft one, too—it is argued that the key … and inflation persistence that owes to the ECB’s failure to internalize the euro area’s fiscal regime. This raises the … question as to whether inflation targeting would have led to better results, or could do so in future. …

panel regressions, the paper finds a negative relationship between legal central bank independence (CBI) and inflation. This … result holds for three alternative measures of CBI, and after controlling for international inflation, banking crises, and … paper fails, however, to find a causal relationship running from CBI to inflation. …

reducing inflation from three-digit annual rates in the 1990s to single-digit territory in 2004. The paper also discusses the …

An empirical link between inflation and price dispersion has been well established in goods and services markets – both …. Specifically, we examine the link between inflation and price dispersion in an empirical setting patently lacking the market … inflation-dispersion link in goods and services markets with a matched panel of equity market prices. Surprisingly, we find that …

The paper offers a new explanation for the cause of the Great Inflation by constructing a model that explicitly … separates the roles of government and monetary policymakers. A mechanism that inflation can accelerate even if an inflation … target is low is uncovered. The model solves the puzzle of the observed high inflation target during the Great Inflation and …

We analyse welfare effects of the interactions between the tax system and inflation in Poland and in Ukraine, using the … framework developed by Feldstein (1997, 1999). This approach stresses the fact that inflation increases distortions created by …