In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize … is high. We develop an open economy model with incomplete financial markets to show that headline inflation targeting … headline inflation, assigns zero weight to import prices. …

employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to … persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation … ; matching models ; labor market search ; inflation persistence ; real wage rigidity …

of households in response to price changes in most years. -- price ; inflation ; equivalent income ; welfare ; linear …

progessivity (affecting higher income households more) of inflation experienced by households between April 2021 and July 2023 …. Despite a growing literature on the distributional impact of inflation, there is limited evidence on gender differentials. We … gender dimension to assess gender differences in inflation regressivity or progressivity, isolate the average inflation rate …

period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both unemployment volatility and inflation persistence … cost determination. This set-up produces realistic labor market statistics together with inflation persistence …

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating … stabilize price movements in the flexible price sector. Also, in the presence of financial frictions, stabilizing core inflation … frictions a welfaremaximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting - a target based on headline …

consumer price inflation rate. -- Wage stickiness ; micro-level evidence ; measurement error … correcting for measurement error, wages appear to be very sticky. In the average quarter, the probability that an individual will …

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which "observed" inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our … persistence of the aggregate inflation. -- aggregation ; large dynamic panels ; long memory ; weak and strong cross section …

This paper evaluates the success of Inflation Targeting on inflation and growth on a large panel data set of both … evidence to show that the support for a successful Inflation Targeting policy is very weak or non-existent. We use various … the process by which inflation targeting is hypothesised to influence inflation and growth, Section 3 surveys this …

We study the link between expected inflation and wages using novel panel data from German firms and employees. We find … that pass-through - the percentage point change in wage growth given a one percentage point change in expected inflation … extensive margin, expected inflation has little effect on additional wage negotiations. …