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 …

model provides micro-foundations for a nonlinear Phillips curve: the sensitivity of inflation to activity increases after … large shocks due to an endogenous rise in the frequency of price changes, as observed during the recent inflation surge. In … response to large cost-push shocks, optimal policy leverages the lower sacrifice ratio to reduce inflation and stabilize the …

Moments (TVP-GMM) framework. Using monthly data until December 2022 for five inflation targeting countries (the UK, Canada …, Switzerland), we find that monetary policy has become more averse to inflation and more responsive to the output gap in both sets … of countries over time. In particular, there has been a clear shift in inflation targeting countries towards a more …

either the inflation or the output gap varies in terms of magnitude and/or statistical significance across the high and low … inflation regimes in all countries. In particular, the exchange rate has an impact in the former but not in the latter regime …

In a standard New Keynesian model, a myopic central bank concerned with stabilizing inflation and changes in the output … stabilizing output gap changes, the central bank imparts inertia into output and inflation that is absent under pure discretion … social outcomes if it focuses on inflation and changes in the output gap than are achieved under inflation targeting. …

It is an open question whether and how indexed wage contracts reduce welfare or raise average inflation. This paper … analyzes the impact of indexed wage contracts on inflation and social welfare in a Barro Gordon model with discretionary … monetary policy by endogenizing social costs of indexation. Main results are: Wage indexation reduces the inflation bias but …

a fixed policy rate. This policy induces similar welfare losses relative to dual-instrument policy as inflation …

are "highly complementary and mutually consistent objectives" in a flexible inflation targeting regime which - dictates … inflation. - (BG, 1999, p.18). This conclusion is straightforward within the variant of the NK-DSGE framework used by BG in … which asset inflation shows up as a factor "augmenting" the IS curve. In the present paper, we pursue a different modelling …