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. …

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 …

This paper analyses the role of inflation expectations in the euro area. On one hand, the question is how inflation … expectations affect both inflation and output, and, on the other hand, how inflation expectations reflect developments in these … variables. The analyses make use of a simple VAR model of inflation, inflation expectations and the output gap that allows for …

This paper shows the way how persistent world inflation shocks hitting a small open economy can re-weight the … inflation. We derive a state-dependent Phillips curve based on translog preferences that make the elasticity of substitution of … disinflation on domestic inflation, as experienced in small open economies such as New Zealand, Chile and Peru. …

Unanticipated inflation or deflation causes one party of a nominal contract to gain at the expense of the other party … labor and land to profit-maximizing firms. Both inflation indexing and strict inflation targeting are Pareto inefficient …

order generator mechanism for cost pressure and inflation. In this working paper the basis and fundamentals of Shannon …

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 …

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 …