Inflation rates in a number of OECD follow a common trend over the past four decades: inflation starts out low in the … in the behavior of trend inflation suggests that any explanation of long run inflation trends ought to apply across OECD …-varying NAIRU, can explain long run trends in U.S. inflation. In this paper we show that this result cannot serve as an explanation …

current inflation and output, in the context of an optimizingmodel with nominal-price stickiness. Under a commitment regime …

two-way communication between the central bankand the public affects inflation dynamics. When inflation target is … hence the bank can stabilize inflation. However, when inflation targetis unobservable or less credible, the public updates … their perceived inflation target and theinformation revealed from markets to the bank becomes less perfect. The degree of …

The remarkable stability of low domestic inflation in many countries requires explanation. In this paper, a number of … continuing low inflation, but also its coexistence with rapid growth and low real interest rates. Unfortunately, the analysis …

looking pricing account for the observed persistence in aggregate inflation. Second, price-setting responds to movements in … marginal costs, which should therefore be the driving force to observed inflation dynamics. This is not always the case in … conditions under which imposing homogeneity results in overestimating a backward-looking component in (aggregate) inflation, and …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of downward wage rigidity (nominal and real) onoptimal steady-state inflation. For this … andFinland). The calibrated heterogeneous agent models are then solved for differentsteady state rates of inflation to derive …

relative-price changes on inflation fluctuations. Therelative price of the flexible-price good represents a shift parameter of … the NewKeynesian Phillips curve. The optimal monetary policy is to target sticky-price inflation,rather than a broad … inflation measure... …

examine the relevance of the cost channel for inflation dynamics in G7 countries. Since firms’ costs of working capital … inflation responses to monetary policy shocks, and can even lead to inverse inflation responses, when the cost channel is …