This paper advances the hypothesis that the transition from there-is-little-central-banks-can-do-to-control-inflation … to inflation targeting occurred because central banks, especially the Federal Reserve, demonstrated that central banks … can control inflation rather than a consequence of marked improvement in the professions understanding of how monetary …

The evolution of the rate of price inflation, (t), and unemployment, u(t), in Japan has been modeled within the … well as the whole deflationary period started in the late 1990s. The Phillips curve for Japan confirms the original concept … that growing unemployment results in decreasing inflation. A linear and lagged generalized Phillips curve expressed as a …

confirmed at company level, whether it is robust to controlling for inflation expectations and whether it is concentrated among …

and lagged relationships between the rates of inflation, unemployment, and change in labour force. For France, several … relationships were estimated eight years ago. The change rate of labour force was used as a driving force of inflation and … estimated with eight new readings obtained since 2004. The rate of CPI inflation is predicted with RMSFE=1.5% per year. For the …

We model the rate of inflation and unemployment in Austria since the early 1960s within the Phillips/Fisher framework … macroeconomic variable was first tested as a predictor of inflation and unemployment in 2005 with the involved time series ended in … relationships between inflation, unemployment, and labour force. As before, a structural break is allowed in these relationships …

Inflation as a phenomenon has witnessed remarkable changes starting from mid-eighties of the last century. Inflation … pull inflation as one of the major determinants of inflation has decreased due to efficient monetary policies that have … been adopted by central banks all over the world to reduce inflation based on anchoring inflation expectations. Moreover …

Much of the US inflation forecasting literature deals with examining the ability of macroeconomic indicators to predict … the mean of future inflation, and the overwhelming evidence suggests that the macroeconomic indicators provide little or … no predictability. In this paper, we expand the scope of inflation predictability and explore whether macroeconomic …