maintain lower inflation levels than their neighbors. Our framework provides a way of weighing these costs and benefits. The … inflation differential between CFA and non-CFA African countries has been around 14 percentage points. We attribute this …. Under reasonable output-inflation tradeoffs, the output costs of maintaining a fixed exchange rate have outweighed the …

inflation and unemployment among EMS members since the late 1970s. This paper presents new empirical evidence for this … inflation countries -- France and Italy -- have experienced a decrease in tolerance for inflation relative to unemployment …. Germany and other low inflation countries, in contrast, appear to have experienced a decrease in tolerance for unemployment …

This paper analyzes the long-run determinants of inflation differentials in a monetary union. First, we aim at …some stylized facts relating the regional dispersion in headline inflation rates in the euro area as well as in the …-traded sector as the primary cause of price and inflation differentials, with shocks to productivity in the traded sector being …

common monetary authority chooses inflation for the union, also without commitment. We first describe the existence of a … wisdom that all countries should prefer a union with low-debt members, as such a union can credibly deliver low inflation …

reforms may cause jumps in inflation and the exchange rate through their impact on the government budget. In order to achieve … a sustainable reduction in inflation an exchange rate freeze or crawling peg is shown to require restrictions not only …-collapse inflation will exceed the rate prevailing before the freeze started …

rates, and the shift in the response of the term structure of interest rates to inflation and output. Although the theory …This paper shows that the theory of monetary policy rules is able to explain, predict, and help understand a variety of …