Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that … pronounced increase of aggregate US producer price inflation. …

This paper considers the existence of a path of GDP corresponding to steady inflation in the prices of domestic goods …. We estimate the steady inflation rate of growth, denoted the SIRG, at a little over 4 per cent per annum in the post …-float period. Changes in inflation are modelled as a nonlinear combination of growth and changes in import price inflation. Because …

inflation and the difficulties of East European central banks in pursuing non-inflationary policies. The main obstacles are the …

situation poses to price stability. We propose to regard the central banker as a risk manager who aims to contain inflation …

This paper estimates the NAIRU (standing for the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment) as a parameter that … varies over time. The NAIRU is the unemployment rate that is consistent with a constant rate of inflation. Its value is … determined in an econometric model in which the inflation rate depends on its own past values (‘inertia’), demand shocks proxied …

The paper advances a simple and tractable Wicksellian model of inflation, in which the price level is determined by the …

, control of inflation and control over the growth of national wealth, and a third outcome of importance, a high level of …). The assignment problem considers whether fiscal policy should be used to control inflation, leaving monetary policy to …