persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation … cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions … employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to …

persistent movements of aggregate inflation. Moreover, the impact of a monetary policy shock on unemployment and inflation … cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions … employment and hours affecting inflation dynamics via marginal costs. We find that the response of unemployment and inflation to …

Most emerging market central banks have adopted inflation targeting as their monetary policy system. The heart of … inflation targeting system is inflation expectations. The success of a central bank in achieving targets depends on to the … extent to which inflation expectations are formed by the announced targets. As the credibility of the central bank increases …

inflation differ over time. We show that the impact varies considerably over time, depends on the source of increased liquidity … (M1, M3-M1 or credit) and the underlying state of the economy (asset price boom-bust, business cycle, inflation cycle …

, consumption, investment and unemployment) has a distinct dynamic from disagreement about nominal variables (inflation and interest … nominal series. Country-by-country regressions for inflation and interest rates reveal that both the level of disagreement and …

In this paper we systematically evaluate how central banks respond to inflation deviations from target. We present a … stylized New Keynesian model in which agents' inflation expectations are sensitive to inflation deviations from target. To (re …-)establish credibility, optimal monetary policy under discretion is shown to set higher interest rates today if average inflation exceeded …

-specific output gaps and inflation rates, we find that performance of the optimal policy rule can be closely approximated by a very … simple rule that targets a weighted average of aggregate wage and price inflation rates. In contrast, some commonly …-prescribed policy rules (such as strict5 price inflation targeting and Taylor's rule) perform very poorly in terms of social welfare. …

implications for monetary policy as the central bank has to decide which inflation rate to target. Our results demonstrate that …

interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …

interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …