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 …

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 …

exchange reserves, sound fiscal positions, and low inflation - suffered milder growth slowdowns, in part due to their greater …

, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain much of the … exhibits a "globalization" stage up to 2007, during which they acquire growing importance, followed by a phase of …