The purpose of this paper is to examine the composition of inflation over time. The authors calculate the contributions … to inflation for individual series of the consumer price index (CPI) and personal consumption expenditures price index … of information concerning aggregate inflation behavior in a concise way, enabling the authors to describe the composition …

This paper develops a set of leading indicators of industrial production growth and consumer price inflation for the … inflation. Our findings provide evidence on the factors determining real activity and inflation in a period of disinflation and …

, albeit temporary, wage cut policy that affected all public sector employees in Romania in 2010. Our main findings suggest an …

inflation through the identification of turning points and structural shocks. After establishing the sought-after properties (of … smoothness, stability, and forecasting) for core inflation, we turn to the discussion of real-time diagnosis for a low inflation … environment. This is done in the context of weekly estimates of Swiss inflation. The intra-monthly estimates for core inflation …

term, inflation is primarily a monetary phenomenon and entails significant economic costs, the best contribution that … stability. Finally, our discussion of the potential uncertainties surrounding the impact of monetary policy in a low inflation …

drawing on new indices of consumer prices the present paper offers an examination of inflation dynamics, defined as price … stability and inflation persistence, in the periphery of Scandinavia during the heyday of the international gold standard. …