more weight on alternative indicators of inflation pressure such as wage settlements, trends in unit labour costs and a … wide range of indicators of inflation expectations. The recent fall in margins observed in some countries may, for instance … States, the large unemployment gap could also keep wage inflation under pressure despite a flattening Phillips curve. These …

This paper assesses the OECD’s projections for GDP growth and inflation during the global financial crisis and recovery … the slowdown and later the weak pace of the recovery – errors made by many other forecasters. At the same time, inflation …<BR>Ce document évalue les projections de l'OCDE relatives à la croissance du PIB et à l'inflation durant la crise financière mondiale …

reduce inflation and limit the real appreciation of the rouble. Given the strength of Russia’s balance of payments during the … interventions which were only partially sterilised. As a result, inflation remained persistently high. During the global financial … greater exchange rate flexibility should be permitted since (i) commodity exporting countries can successfully run inflation …

The inflation measure used by the European Central Bank excludes housing costs that are borne by home owners even … repayments. The user cost measure is combined with the HICP to derive a “broad” inflation estimate. For the sake of comparison … costs have an impact. Another important conclusion is that the effect of owner-occupied housing costs on inflation varies …

To help policymakers form a judgment on inflation risks and the required monetary policy stance the OECD has developed … Outlook to explain recent developments in core inflation, excluding food and energy, based on developments in measures of … economic slack (the output gap), spill-over effects from energy prices onto core inflation and lagged responses to past …

investigates the implications of euro adoption in the Slovak Republic for inflation and interest rates with an attempt to quantify … raise the Slovak inflation rate above the euro area level. As capital markets have already fully priced in euro membership … to counter any such developments.<P>L'adoption de l'euro par la République slovaque : les implications pour l'inflation …

rates on domestic inflation, which may have contributed to differences in policy stances during the boom in commodity prices …, they cannot explain them all.<P>Réponse de l'inflation aux chocs récents : Les pays du G7 diffèrent-ils les uns des autres … certain nombre de différences dans l'impact estimé des prix à l'importation des produits de base et des taux de change sur l'inflation …

In recent years, inflation in the euro area has failed to decelerate decisively while cyclical slack built up in the … analysis conducted on two decades of quarterly data covering 17 countries yields a yes on both counts. First, inflation is … de l'inflation dans la zone euro<BR>Au cours des dernières années, l’inflation ne s’est pas ralentie de manière sensible …

This paper considers a number of different measures of core inflation and tries to identify those containing the most … useful information about future movements in headline inflation rates over the horizons relevant for monetary policy for the … considerably better than the headline rate at determining the underlying inflation trend and, being considerably less volatile, can …

Over the past 25 years inflation has moderated considerably in all OECD economies. At the same time, the production of …-OECD economies has risen markedly. This paper investigates the extent to which the observed changes in the inflation process can be … inflation to domestic economic conditions has declined whereas the sensitivity to foreign economic conditions has risen, working …