promotions on inflation measurement. Although changes in product-level expenditure shares were unusually high during lockdown, we … inflation, and lower use of promotions by low-income consumers explains why they experienced moderately lower inflation. Overall …, changes in shopping behaviours played only a minor role in driving higher inflation during lockdown; higher prices were the …

We analyze the determinants of the inflation trends in ten Southeast European (SEE) countries. Global cost …-related factors and euro area (EA) inflation developments play an important role in explaining inflation dynamics in SEE countries … exchange to euro area market appear to be susceptible to inflation spillovers from the euro area. Moreover, nominal effective …

This paper explores the effect of inflation supply and demand shocks on government debt. It identifies the shocks using …

responds to inflation and output volatility, especially during economic crises. This framework offers a promising alternative …

Inflation targeting has been adopted in a set of emerging economies, including eight countries in Latin America. The … take appropriate actions if the target is breached. This paper exploits a database of inflation expectations and attempts … to measure whether, for a set of inflation targeters in Latin America, expectations are well anchored. A tighter …

This paper studies inflation persistence with time-varying coefficient autoregressions for twelve central European … countries,in comparison with the United States and the euro area. Inflation persistence tends to be higher in times of high … inflation. Since the oil price shocks, inflation persistence has declined both in the US and euro-area. In most central and …

attain local stationarity and bounded mean values. The model is applied to the analysis of inflation dynamics. Allowing for …

" to inflation, an effect that is known as exchange rate pass-through (ERPT). In particular, if an exchange rate … relatively lower ERPT in the past two decades, the exchange rate continues to be a large determinant of inflation in several …

of past experience and international best practices. It confirms that food inflation has been the driver of domestic … inflation. The paper studies the recommendations of the Urjit Patel Committee and comments that monetary policies predominantly … focussed on inflation targeting may not necessarily be effective in India where inflation and inflationary expectations …

The headline consumer price index (CPI) is often considered too noisy, narrowly defined, and/or slowly available for … policymaking. On the other hand, traditional core inflation measures may reduce volatility but do not address other issues and may … even exclude important information. This paper develops a new underlying inflation gauge (UIG) for China which …