currency by keeping inflation low and steady. This paper provides evidence that monetary policy tightening aimed at maintaining … low and stable inflation could at the same time reduce consumption inequality over a 12-18 month horizon, commonly … benefit mainly from lower inflation. By contrast, the real consumption of individuals at higher ends of the consumption …

Do euro area inflation expectations remain well-anchored? This paper finds that the protracted period of low (and below …-target) inflation in the euro area since 2013 has weakened their anchoring. Testing their sensitivity to inflation and macroeconomic … news, this paper expands existing results in two key dimensions. First, by analyzing all available (advanced) inflation …

-recession trend, suggesting hysteresis. Second, while inflation has decreased, it has decreased less than anticipated, suggesting a … breakdown of the relation between inflation and activity. To examine the first, we look at 122 recessions over the past 50 years … unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …

Monetary policymakers in advanced transition economies such as Poland are increasingly interested in how inflation … responds to changes in policy instruments and other economic forces. In this paper, measures of underlying CPI inflation based … economic variables is then studied via Granger causality tests and impulse responses and a multivariate model of CPI inflation …

inflation combined with a free float seems to be the ultimate option. The paper shows how to design and operationalize such a …

The Gambia is to become an inflation targeter lite …

We offer a novel methodology for assessing the quality of inflation reports. In contrast to the existing literature …, which mostly evaluates the formal quality of these reports, we evaluate their economic content by comparing inflation … coding of inflation reports to describe inflation factors communicated by central banks in real time. Regarding the latter …

regime with macroeconomic performance, inflation in particular. Stability of the exchange rate has generally been a by …-product of other policy choices. Even announcement effects of the regime on inflation-fighting credibility depend on the country …

We study the inflation process in India, focusing on the periods before and after the adoption of flexible inflation … core inflation, an examination of the sensitivity of medium-term inflation expectations to inflation surprises, and the … properties of convergence between headline and core inflation. Results indicate an important role for domestic factors in driving …