summarised as follows. (1) Historically, inflation persistence appears to have been the exception, rather than the rule, with … inflation estimated to have been highly persistent only during the period between the floating of the pound, in June 1972, and … the introduction of inflation targeting, in October 1992. Under inflation targeting, it exhibits some slight negative …

. Under discretionary monetary policy the size of the inflation bias depends on the fiscal policy regime. Using the timeless … alternative fiscal policy rules, and inflation and output persistence reflects the economic data. With the deficit rules, the …

In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, the United States experienced a burst of inflation the origins of which seemed … have arrived at the erroneous conclusion that its output-inflation trade-off was better than is truly the case. This … equilibria and restore stability of inflation expectations. An implication of this is that the observed higher volatility of the …

rules. Accordingly, we augment a standard inflation targeting model in which a forward-looking version of the Taylor rule …

This paper exhibits and quantifies a new theoretical channel of the non-neutrality of inflation transiting through … capital market imperfections. Unconstrained households change their financial position in front of a change in the inflation … following a change in the inflation rate. Because of this heterogeneity, the standard result on the neutrality of inflation does …