The existence of nominal rigidities and inflation differentials between countries offers two of the main rationales for … an inflation buffer in a monetary union where monetary policy is oriented towards an area-wide inflation objective … strong argument for a positive inflation buffer to “grease the wheels” of the euro area economy – also in order to avoid the …

designed. At the time, the main concern of the Governing Council was to anchor inflation at low levels in face of the … low-inflation environment has created the concrete risk of de-anchoring of longer-term inflation expectations. Addressing … low inflation is different from addressing high inflation. The ability of the ECB (and central banks globally) to provide …

well as the improvements made to this measure of inflation since 2003 – finds that the HICP continues to fulfil the …. More generally, the paper also finds that auxiliary inflation measures can play an important role in the ECB’s economic and … monetary analyses. This applies not only to analytical series including OOH, but also to measures of underlying inflation or a …

This paper provides a summary of current knowledge on inflation persistence and price stickiness in the euro area …, based on research findings that have been produced in the context of the Inflation Persistence Network. The main findings … are: i) Under the current monetary policy regime, the estimated degree of inflation persistence in the euro area is …