This paper studies the effects of global and domestic inflation shocks on core price inflation in 105 countries between … empirical results indicate that most of the variation in inflation among low-income countries over the past decades is accounted … for by external shocks. More than half of the variation in core inflation rates among low-income countries is due to …

consumer-price inflation) around the time of the onset of armed conflicts during 1950-2016. The authors compare the performance … after the onset of conflict. In contrast, there is little evidence that inflation is higher in conflict-afflicted economies …

Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) have experienced an extraordinary decline in inflation since the early … 1970s. After peaking in 1974 at 17.3 percent, inflation in these economies declined to 3.5 percent in 2017. Despite a … checkered history of managing inflation among many EMDEs, disinflation occurred across all regions. This paper presents a …

The paper studies the extent of global inflation synchronization using a dynamic factor model in a large set of … (advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies) and to analyze commonalities in inflation synchronization … across a wide range of inflation measures. The paper reports three major results. First, inflation movements have become …