summarised as follows. (1) Historically, inflation persistence appears to have been the exception, rather than the rule, with … inflation estimated to have been highly persistent only during the period between the floating of the pound, in June 1972, and … the introduction of inflation targeting, in October 1992. Under inflation targeting, it exhibits some slight negative …

resilient to external shocks. Enhancing the credibility of the inflation target would provide the monetary authorities with more …. Améliorer la crédibilité de l’objectif d’inflation donnerait aux autorités monétaires plus de latitude pour réagir aux chocs …

inflation and a permanent reduction in the level of unemployment. In short, we derive a microfounded long-run downward …

deflator-based inflation rate is about four times stronger than the reaction of euro area-wide aggregates. The strength of the …