A parsimonious model of shifting policy regimes can simultaneously capture expected and actual US inflation during 1969 …. Private sector learning about policymaker type leads to a reputation state variable. We use model inflation forecasting rules … to extract state variables from SPF inflation forecasts. US inflation is tracked by optimal policy without commitment …

This paper assesses the proximate causes of the post pandemic surge in US inflation, the Federal Reserve's real time …

economic growth. This paper examines the roles of three other factors: primary budget surpluses, surprise inflation, and pegged … inflation and the pre-Accord peg. In this counterfactual, debt/GDP declines only to 74% in 1974, not 23% as in actual history …

Amidst the recent resurgence of inflation, this paper investigates the interplay of corporate profits and income … distribution in shaping inflation and aggregate demand within the New Keynesian framework. We derive a novel analytical condition …-demand fluctuations and inflation to be amplified by heterogeneity, profits have to be countercyclical--an implication that is at odds …

recent global surges in inflation and government spending. This study applies the FTPL to 37 OECD countries for 2020 …-2022. The theory's centerpiece is the government's intertemporal budget constraint, which relates a country's inflation rate in … and the duration of the debt in 2019. This specification has substantial explanatory power for recent inflation rates …