Inflation targeting is a forward-looking framework for monetary policy that has brought unprecedented transparency to …) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has, since the introduction of inflation targeting, successfully communicated to the public its …

sector inflation expectations has become an essential channel through which this goal is achieved. This evaluation aims to … improve the understanding of how the sensitivity of private sector inflation expectations to macroeconomic surprises in South … anchoring inflation expectations. If a central bank is credible, the financial markets should react less sensitively to …

The inflation expectations channel of the transmission mechanism is generally recognised as crucial for the … implementation of modern monetary policy. This paper briefly reviews the practices commonly employed for measuring inflation … forward rates (called inflation compensation) on a particular day is then used as a proxy for the market's inflation …

-separability of the utility function, inflation aversion, nominal transaction frictions). The monograph is organized as follows … market share competition with the assumption that agent?s behavior is characterized by inflation aversion. Chapter IV is … devoted to the GMM estimation of crucial parameters of the inflation-aversion model of the previous chapter. A model featuring …

Drives Inflation. Chapter IV introduces a second model of a corrupt central banker, one who sells inside information … general seems to increase the inflation rate. My model of the corrupt central banker provides a new explanation of this effect …, that is, that corruption leads to a higher rate of inflation and/or higher seigniorage, will be tested for a cross …

Evolving openness to trade is hard to measure, despite its relevance to models of growth, inflation and exchange rates … andexchange rate. The evidence for South Africa suggests that increased openness has significantly reduced the mean inflation rate …

Inflation is a far from homogeneous phenomenon, a fact often neglected in modeling consumer price inflation. Using a … sectoral sources of inflation, useful to monetary policy. Data for 1979 to 2003 are used for model selection, and pseudo out of …