We develop and estimate a structural model of inflation that allows for a fraction of firms that use a backward looking … measures of arginal cost as the relevant determinant of inflation, as the theory suggests, instead of an ad-hoc output gap …. Real marginal costs are a significant and quantitatively important determinant of inflation. Backward looking price setting …

This revised second edition of Monetary Policy, Inflation, and the Business Cycle provides a rigorous graduate … for the analysis of monetary policy and its implications for inflation, economic fluctuations, and welfare. A backbone of … inflation-targeting policies. New material includes labor and financial market frictions, the zero lower bound on nominal …