We study the role of war bonds and inflation in the presidential elections of the 1950s. During World War II, the … promotion of savings bonds made Americans more sensitive to the high inflation that prevailed after the war, contributing to …

inflation in the 2020s. Economic slack is measured as firms' job vacancies over the number of unemployed workers. After showing …. Policy implications include the thesis that appropriate monetary policy can bring inflation down without a significant …

A relation between inflation and the path of average marginal cost (often measured by unit labor cost) implied by the … is shown to again take the standard "new-Keynesian" form, but with an elasticity of inflation with respect to real …

appointment of Volcker marked a change in the conduct of monetary policy, but inflation dropped only when fiscal policy … accommodated this change two years later. In fact, a disinflationary attempt of the monetary authority leads to more inflation if … been confident about the switch, the Great Inflation would not have occurred and debt would have been higher. This is …

with a modest and protracted decline in inflation, following the rise in financial stress in 2008Q4. The model does so even … though inflation remains very dependent on the evolution of economic activity and of monetary policy …

Most wage-contracting models with rational expectations fail to replicate the persistence in inflation observed in the … data. We argue that coordination problems and multiple equilibria are the keys to explaining inflation persistence. We … thus rational. Based on quarterly U.S. data over the period 1955-2000, we find evidence that inflation is more persistent …

The US and other advanced countries suffered bursts of severe inflation in 2021 and the first half of 2022, followed by … declines of inflation later in 2022, in some countries. In times of high volatility of price determinants--cost and … productivity--inflation can jump upward and fall downward at high speed, contrary to the uniformly sticky behavior associated with …

We show that, in a broad class of menu cost models, the dynamics of aggregate inflation in response to arbitrary shocks …

difference by showing that, although the pass-through of marginal cost into inflation is substantial, the elasticity of marginal … inflation …