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 …

resilient to external shocks. Enhancing the credibility of the inflation target would provide the monetary authorities with more …. Améliorer la crédibilité de l’objectif d’inflation donnerait aux autorités monétaires plus de latitude pour réagir aux chocs …

States, the large unemployment gap could also keep wage inflation under pressure despite a flattening Phillips curve. These … productivity gaps, except in the United States where it essentially resulted from a large increase in the unemployment gap. As … more weight on alternative indicators of inflation pressure such as wage settlements, trends in unit labour costs and a …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This study analyses the impact of economic catching-up on annual inflation rates in the European Union with a special … Balassa-Samuelson effect is not an important driver of inflation rates. By contrast, we find that the initial price level and … regulated prices strongly affect inflation outcomes in a nonlinear manner and that the extension of Engel’s Law may hold during …