The paper develops robust measures of core inflation for Vietnam that can be used in policy making. These core … inflation measures (CIMs) are based on an analytical evaluation of the inflation process in Vietnam, and use a filtering … better. Among TMMs, 'one trim does not fit all periods'; periods of high and variable inflation require larger trims, and …

.S. headline inflation rate. This paper compares alternative approaches to filtering out the transitory effects of these industry … price changes and measuring the underlying or core level of inflation over 2020-2021. The Federal Reserve’s preferred … measure of core, the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices (XFE), has performed poorly: over most of 2020-21, it is …

The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper … constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass …, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most …

shocks than the usual filtering techniques. It also produces smaller out-of-sample forecast errors for inflation. At the same …