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 …

We show that the presence of nominal non-indexed government debt could give rise to more than one equilibrium inflation …

This paper revisits the question of the real effects of inflation, on the basis of the experience with 23 high … inflation episodes in 17 countries. It finds strong indications that inflation had contractionary effects on a number of … important macroeconomic variables, such as GDP, investment and employment. Moreover, high inflation led to a significant decline …

Inflation persistence is sometimes defined as the tendency for price shocks to push the inflation rate away from its … steady state - including an inflation target - for a prolonged period. Persistence is important because it affects the output … costs of lowering inflation back to the target, often described as the “sacrifice ratio”. In this paper I use inflation …

are affected by the undershooting of the euro area inflation target. To shed light on this issue, we estimate an open …-economy, New Keynsian Phillips curve, in which we control for imported inflation. Regression results suggest that falling food and … energy prices have been the main disinflationary driver. But low core inflation in the euro area has also had a clear and …

Persistently high inflation rates have led many to believe that inflation in Turkey has become "inertial," posing an … obstacle to disinflation. We assess the empirical validity of this argument. We find that the current degree of inflation …, expectations of future inflation are more important than past inflation in shaping the inflation process, providing little evidence …

This paper explores inflation dynamics and monetary policy in Bolivia. Bolivia's monetary policy framework has been … effective in stabilizing inflation in recent times. This has been a challenging task given high price volatility of key consumer … framework has contributed to the stabilization of inflation, with effective transmission through the bank lending channel, while …

The COVID-19 pandemic altered consumption patterns significantly in a short period of time. However, official inflation … Germany, we document how consumption patterns changed and we quantify the resulting inflation bias. We find that consumers … experienced a higher level of inflation at the beginning of the pandemic than what a fixed-weight inflation (or the official …

We study the link between central bank independence and inflation by providing narrative and empiricial evidence based …, central banks turned into de facto development banks under the aegis of governments, sawing the seeds for high inflation. It … took the high inflation episodes of the 1970s and 1980s and the associated major decline in real income, and growing social …