variables also significantly reduce inflation in both the short and long run. Given the actual changes in these factors in the … inflation in the latter half of the last decade …

currently available in the United States offer fixed nominal payouts, rather than an inflation-linked payout stream. After … U.S. private annuity markets provide retirees with inflation-protected retirement income flows. Although there is … effectively no market yet for inflation-indexed annuities in the United States, such products are available in other countries …

We explore a hypothesis about the take-off in inflation that occurred in the early 1970s. According to the expectations … trap hypothesis, the Fed was pushed into producing the high inflation out of a fear of violating the public's inflation … expectations. We compare this hypothesis with the Phillips curve hypothesis, according to which the Fed produced the high inflation …

uncertainty over the period 1970 to 1995. We construct measures of inflation uncertainty as well as aggregate nominal and real … uncertainty. The results not only corroborate previous findings of an inverse relationship between contract duration and inflation … of this relationship to the various measures of inflation uncertainty that have appeared in the literature …

contributed to financial instability during 1790-1933, and that inflation rate shocks contributed to financial instability during …

We develop and estimate a structural model of inflation that allows for a fraction of firms that use a backward looking … measures of arginal cost as the relevant determinant of inflation, as the theory suggests, instead of an ad-hoc output gap …. Real marginal costs are a significant and quantitatively important determinant of inflation. Backward looking price setting …

inflation (with base drift in the price level) and price-level stability (without such base drift) are compared, and a suitable … loss function (corresponding to flexible inflation targeting) is discussed, including the index and level for the inflation … price stability. The benefits of credibility (private inflation expectations coinciding with the inflation target) are …

monetary policymaking. First, we discuss why trimmed means provide the best measure of core inflation. Second, we outline how … rigidities impede policymakers' ability to control inflation. And third, we describe how alternative shock/rigidity combinations … create inflation's grease (whereby it improves economic efficiency by speeding adjustment) and sand effects (whereby it …

schedule was fixed in nominal terms while inflation was high (around 10%). This produced a real change in tax rate schedules …

inflation expectations. We develop this measure using assumptions common in economic analysis of open economies. Using quarterly …