Remarks at New York University's Stern School of Business, New York City.

Remarks at the Annual Meeting with Primary Dealers, New York City.

Remarks at the Forecasters Club of New York, New York City.

Central banks analyze a wide range of data to obtain better measures of underlying inflationary pressures. Factor models have widely been used to formalize this procedure. Using a dynamic factor model this paper develops a measure of underlying inflation (UIG) at time horizons of relevance for...