between increased central bank independence and inflation during 1999–2001 in 14 Latin American countries. Dissagregating the … between legal central bank independence and inflation …

reducing inflation from three-digit annual rates in the 1990s to single-digit territory in 2004. The paper also discusses the …

Understanding the sources of inflation persistence is crucial for monetary policy. This paper provides an empirical … assessment of the influence of inflation expectations' anchoring on the persistence of inflation. We construct a novel index of … inflation expectations' anchoring using survey-based inflation forecasts for 45 economies starting in 1989. We then study the …

This paper provides some empirical estimates on how tightly is it feasible to control inflation in a very small open … inflation and output variability that are achievable under a range of alternative monetary policy rules. These frontiers … illustrate that inflation stabilization is more challenging in Iceland than in other industrial countries primarily because of …

Although few would doubt that very high inflation is bad for growth, there is much less agreement about moderate … inflation’s effects. Using panel regressions and a nonlinear specification, this paper finds a statistically and economically … significant negative relationship between inflation and growth. This relationship holds at all but the lowest inflation rates and …