Headline inflation in most industrialized countries, the US in particular, has been shown to be mean reverting to core … inflation in the medium term, whilst at the same time the pass-through of exogenous commodity price shocks from the headline to … volatility for the latter and creates a drive for investing in commodities as a hedge for the spread between both inflation …

This paper provides an overview of statistical measurement issues relating to alternative measures of core inflation …, and the criteria for choosing among them. The approaches to measurement considered include exclusion-based methods …

What are the implications of targeting different measures of inflation? We extend a basic theoretical framework of … optimal monetary policy under inflation targeting to include several components of CPI inflation ratio, and analyze the … implications of using different measures of inflation as target variable core inflation, CPI excluding interest rates, and headline …

This paper evaluates the usefulness of various measures of core inflation for the conduct of monetary policy …. Traditional exclusion-based measures of core inflation are found to perform relatively poorly across a range of evaluation … move with macroeconomic drivers. All measures of core inflation, however, have limitations - consequently, there is merit …

This paper provides a review of the concept of core inflation and evaluates the performance of several proposed … measures. We first consider the rationale of a central bank in setting its inflation goal in terms of a selected rate of … consumer price growth and the use of a core inflation measure as a means of achieving this long-term policy objective. We then …