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 …

, particularly those coming from the natural gas sector. The high peaks of the Eurozone inflation are mainly associated with gas … and inflation dynamics in Europe. Specifically, we include in our specification two separate energy markets (oil and … natural gas) and two target macroeconomic variables, measuring inflation expectations and the realized headline inflation. Our …

European Central Bank in order to predict the consequences of its monetary policy on the inflation objective. …

Using a novel dataset that integrates inflation expectations with information on social network connections, we show … that inflation expectations within one's social network have a positive, causal relationship with individual inflation …, socially determined inflation expectations induce imperfect risk-sharing and can affect the inflation and real output …

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 …