episode techniques, we identify disinflation shocks as shocks that drive the inflation rate to a lower level in the long … inflation rate increases above its long-run level and exhibits a positive hump-shaped response. A similar pattern is found for …

found to help rationalizing the hump-shaped response of inflation, without resorting to the counterfactual assumption of …

exclusively on the anchoring of short- to medium-term inflation expectations (Part 2). Several measures show that this anchoring … expectations has on the determination of the short- to medium-term inflation rate. From this point of view, observed inflation in … on the other aspect of monetary stability: the degree of price-level uncertainty and the anchoring of inflation …

tolerance range policies, characterized by a stronger reaction of the centralbank to inflation when inflation lies outside the … strong reaction, when inflation is far fromthe target, is required to compensate a moderately lower reaction within tolerance …

This paper uses disaggregated CPI time series to show that a break in the mean of French inflation occurred in the mid … mean break, both aggregate and sectoral inflation persistence are stable and low, with the unit root lying far in the tail … price changes (at the firm level) appears positively related with inflation persistence (at the aggregate level) …

This paper proposes an empirical investigation of the impact of oil price forecast errors on inflation forecast errors … for two different sets of recent forecasts data: the median of SPF inflation forecasts for the U.S. and the Central Bank … inflation forecasts for France. Mainly two salient points emerge from our results. First, there is a significant contribution of …

20%; (v) the overall frequency of price changes does not change much with inflation and does not react much to aggregate … shocks; (vi) changes in inflation are mostly driven by movements in the overall size; when decomposing the overall size … size of price decreases. These findings are consistent with the predictions of a menu cost model in a low inflation …