might be useful in the forecasting of aggregate inflation. Trimmed-mean inflation estimators have been shown to be useful … devices for forecasting headline PCE inflation. But does this stem from their ability to signal the underlying trend, or does … question by augmenting a “hard to beat” benchmark inflation forecasting model of headline PCE price inflation with robust …

We develop a flexible modeling framework to produce density nowcasts for US inflation at a trading-day frequency. Our …