inflation surge and derives projections for the future. In 2020, the Fed took the negative prescribed rates, which were far … clearly signaled the need for tightening because of the rise of inflation, yet the Fed waited until spring 2022 to raise the … federal funds rate. With the decline of inflation over the course of 2023, the rules’ prescriptions have also come down. They …

inflation surge and derives projections for the future. In 2020, the Fed took the negative prescribed rates, which were far … clearly signaled the need for tightening because of the rise of inflation, yet the Fed waited until spring 2022 to raise the … federal funds rate. With the decline of inflation over the course of 2023, the rules' prescriptions have also come down. They …

disinflation under inflation targeting policies. The analysis is motivated by the disinflation performance of many inflation … episode price-setting firms' expect inflation to be highly persistent and opt for backward-looking indexation. As the central … bank acts to bring inflation under control, price-setting firms revise their estimates of the degree of persistence. Such …

a rationale for the practice of inflation zone targeting. We show that the presence of either zone-quadratic preferences … or a zone-linear relationship between inflation and economic activity provides strong incentives to deviate from … structure and relative preference towards economic stability in determining the width of the implied targeted inflation zone …

reunification. A policy that separates learning from control may induce a persistent upward bias in money growth and inflation, just …

Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An … important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This paper studies the optimal monetary … policy in the presence of uncertainty about the natural unemployment rate, the short-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff and …