" – although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for thestylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly … asserted that, in the context of thenew Phillips curve (NPC), inflation is a jump variable... …

, can well be explained. Alongside the more traditionalmacroeconomic determinants like core inflation, monetary policy and …

We examine the global dimension of inflation in 24 OECD countries between 1980 and 2007in a traditional Phillips curve … affect inflation through (the common part of) domestic demand and supplyconditions. Our most important result is that the … common component of changes in unit laborcosts notably affects inflation. We also find evidence that movements in import …

inflation. We find that these forecasts do not contain the intended information.Rather, they either have no information content …

and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetarytarget helps anchoring inflation and inflation … as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to theactivity growth gap. In contrast, the response to …

-term interest rates to the Bank of England’s inflation report andto macroeconomic announcements. Due to the quarterly frequency at …, the more timehas elapsed since the latest release of an inflation report, market volatility shouldincrease, the price …