can use cash or credit, with the former (latter) subject to the inflation tax (transaction costs). Frictions that make the … data, and money-interest correlations in macro data. We analyze the effects of inflation on welfare, price dispersion and …

stability under adaptive learning for interest rate rules that respond to inflation measures differing in their degree of price … stickiness. We find that rules responding to headline inflation measures that assign a positive weight to the inflation of the … the inflation of the sector with high price stickiness. By this we mean that they are more prone to induce non …

, robust measures of central tendency are likely to outperform the mean or standard measures of “core” inflation as indicators … of generalized inflation. The analysis also supports the use of geometric averaging in CPI construction and the targeting … of the geometric mean inflation rate rather than the Laspeyres mean …

flexible prices. Second, under the optimal policy the volatility of non-tradable inflation is close to zero. Third, stabilizing … nontradable inflation is optimal regardless of the financial structure of the small open economy. Even for a moderate degree of …

shocks this model generates the empirically observed slow (inertial) and prolonged (persistent) reaction of the inflation … shocks mostly through a change in the long-run or inflation updating component of their pricing policies. With staggered … pricing policies there is a time lag before this is reflected in aggregate inflation …

Exchange rate-based inflation stabilization (ERBS) policies are associated with a boom-recession cycle in economic … forward-looking pricing behavior without inflation stickiness and attribute the slow decline in inflation to the consumption …-looking components of inflation weigh approximately equally in pricing behavior, and therefore, that inflation is partially sticky. The …

Anchoring of inflation expectations is of paramount importance for central banks' ability to deliver stable inflation … and minimize price dispersion. Relying on daily interest rates and inflation forecasts from major financial institutions … the dispersion of inflation expectations, a proxy for the extent of anchoring, which is based on the same analysts …