Ball and Sheridan (forthcoming) show that OECD countries with a history of high inflation before the 1990s have … subsequently experienced a larger degree of disinflation than countries with a history of low inflation. They label this process … ‘regression to the mean’, and argue that it explains why those OECD countries which adopted inflation targeting experienced larger …

. These include the distinction between the short and long-run trade-offs between inflation and unemployment, and the changing … level of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), particularly in the 1970s. We estimate Phillips curves … discussion of the changing role of the Phillips curve in the intellectual framework used to analyse inflation within the Reserve …

information about inflation expectations – that survey measures of expectations are inconsistent with rational expectations, but … less so for financial markets than households; that actual and expected inflation interact with each other; and that the … foreign exchange market anticipates tighter monetary policy when inflation is higher than expected. The second half of the …

the headline CPI, exclusion-based ‘cores’, and trimmed means as measures of underlying inflation. Overall, we find that … support to the use of trimmed means as useful measures of underlying inflation at the current juncture where the growth of … China and other emerging markets is having two offsetting effects on global inflation. Whereas some central banks have …

prices are indexed to past inflation. These problems arise because of a type of misspecification and a lack of suitable …

include that a positive output gap would be less inflationary, but the cost of reducing inflation, once established, would … in the context of new-Keynesian economic theory. Using data for the United States and Australia, we find that the …