supplies, outputs, inflation rates and interest rates. Nonetheless, it has been well documented that such variables little help …

empirical, panel equation system-based assessment is that these developments have exerted downward pressures on real short- and …

perceived inflation persistence by the private sector. Such a sophisticated policy reduces inflation persistence and inflation … volatility at little cost in terms of output gap volatility. Persistent responses to cost-push shocks and stability of inflation … play is very different. In the case of commitment it relies on expectations of future policy actions affecting inflation …

Price level targeting has been proposed as an alternative to inflation targeting that may confer benefits if a central … bank sets policy under discretion, even if societyu0092s loss function is specified in terms of inflation (instead of price …-of-thumb to form inflation expectations, or does not fully understand the nature of the target, price level targeting may in fact …

This paper analyzes monetary policy in a model with a potential unanchoring of inflation expectations. The degree of … unanchoring is given by how sensitively the public's long-run inflation expectations respond to inflation surprises. I find that … inflation fluctuations when expectations are well-anchored. Furthermore, I estimate the model-implied relationship that …

patterns in economic activity and inflation following oil price shocks in the euro area. In the normal regime, oil price shocks … followed by sizeable and sustained macroeconomic fluctuations, with inflation and economic activity moving in the same … direction as the oil price. The responses of inflation expectations and wage growth point to second-round effects as a potential …