The paper discusses policy relevant models, going from (1) chronic inflation in the 20th century after WWII, to (2 …

-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 …

This paper examines the recent behavior of core inflation in the United States. We specify a simple Phillips curve … based on the assumptions that inflation expectations are fully anchored at the Federal Reserve's target, and that labor …-market slack is captured by the level of short-term unemployment. This equation explains inflation behavior since 2000, including …

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 …

If inflation expectations become firmly anchored at the inflation target even when average inflation deviates from the … target, the long-run Phillips curve becomes non-vertical. During 1997-2011, average inflation expectations in Sweden have … been close to the inflation target of 2 percent, whereas average inflation has fallen short of the target by 0.6 percentage …

We propose a new approach to constructing inflation tracking portfolios. The key to this approach is the insight that … asset returns track expected inflation far better than they track current realized inflation. Thus, we can construct … portfolios that track next month's inflation much more closely than they track this month's inflation. We show this staggered …

This paper documents the evolution of long-run inflation expectations and models the stance of monetary policy from … 1965 to 1980. A host of survey-based measures and financial market data indicate that long-run inflation expectations rose … with a constant inflation goal, our analysis indicates that the path of policy can be characterized by a reaction function …

to the fact that both bond and equity yields commove strongly and positively with expected inflation. While inflation … commoves with nominal bond yields for well-known reasons, the positive correlation between expected inflation and equity yields … uncertainty about real growth prospects and habit -- based risk version. In the US, high expected inflation has tended to …

stable inflation behavior will be generated -- is incorrect. This is because New Keynesian (NK) models are typically … consistent with the existence of RE paths with explosive inflation rates (in addition to one or more stable paths) that normally … imply the absence of explosive inflation. That result does not, however, justify negative conclusions about NK analysis. For …

inflation illusion. Illusionary investors mistake changes in nominal interest rates for changes in real rates, while smart … moves with expected inflation. The model also predicts a nonmonotonic relationship between the price-to-rent ratio on … developed. We document that many countries experienced a housing boom in the high-inflation 1970s and a second, stronger, boom …