We document that about 33% of the core inflation basket in the euro area is sensitive to monetary policy shocks. We …. Estimations over different samples show that the impact of monetary policy shocks on sensitive core inflation has become larger …

synchronized within rather than across stores. Time variations in inflation can be attributed mainly to variations in the frequency …

In most OECD countries, we cannot reject up to three breaks in the mean of inflation: one break in the late 1960's … phenomena. We also show that ignoring breaks in the mean of inflation clearly lead to overrate inflation persistence in standard … bi-variate models of inflation. The response of inflation to shocks in these models is markedly faster with breaks than …

This paper uses disaggregated CPI time series to show that a break in the mean of French inflation occurred in the mid … mean break, both aggregate and sectoral inflation persistence are stable and low, with the unit root lying far in the tail … price changes (at the firm level) appears positively related with inflation persistence (at the aggregate level) …

How much does quality adjustment matter in measuring consumer price inflation? To address this question, we use … inflation only by 0.06 percentage points, which is balanced out by an increase due to quantity adjustment (e.g. a smaller … deriving the distribution of member states' cumulative inflation rates for typical quality-adjusted products. Our macro …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …

inflation series of the euro area CPI translates into the slow adjustment of euro area aggregate inflation. We first estimate a … dynamic factor model for 404 inflation sub-indices of the euro area CPI. This allows to decompose the dynamics of inflation … the overall variance of the 404 disaggregate inflation series, is the main driver of aggregate dynamics. In addition, the …

equilibrium values having explanatory power for subsequent consumer price inflation …

We propose a new core inflation measure for the Euro area which places the emphasis on the more lasting, i …. Unlike headline inflation, our baseline core inflation measure is highly correlated with ECB monetary policy decisions, which …