The standard loss function counts both positive and negative deviations from the output and inflation targets as losses …. But if the sample period is long enough, then output growth in excess of the target, and often also inflation rates that …

-term nominal bonds and costly inflation. Our model features two transmission channels of monetary policy: a Fisher channel, arising … from the impact of inflation on the initial price of long-term bonds, and a liquidity channel. The Fisher channel gives the … prices and thus relax borrowing limits. The result is optimal inflation front-loading. Numerically, we find that optimal …

When inflation picks up, central banks are most concerned that the de-anchoring of inflation expectations and the … ignition of wage-price spirals will trigger inflation dynamic instability. However, such scenarios do not materialize in the … updated according to the actual inflation process, with indexed wages, and persistent inflation shocks. In these cases, a more …

The resurgence of inflation since the late 2021 is now accompanied by a reversal of prospects of growth, reviving fears … prominent role is played by the fall of households' purchasing power, and hence consumption, owing to the inflation shock visà … inflation surprises, independent of restrictive monetary policy, is not present in the standard New Keynesian models for …

inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an … inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a conflict between monetary policy and discretionary fiscal policy …

We provide novel systematic cross-country evidence that the link between domestic labour markets and CPI inflation has … domestic labour cost changes to core CPI inflation decreased from 0.25 in the 1980s to just 0.02 in the 2010s, while the …

This paper examines the distributional implications of inflation on top income shares in 12 advanced economies using … data over the period 1920-2016. We use Local Projections to analyze how top income shares respond to an inflation shock …, and panel regressions in which all variables are defined as five-year averages to examine the impact of inflation on the …

actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an exogenously given preference against inflation. We reframe this …