comprehensive, model of the relationship between a central bank's balance sheet structure and its inflation performance. The first …

linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the "Great Inflation", nominal wages moved in the same direction as … the (required) adjustment of real wages, and in the opposite direction of the price response. During the "Great Inflation … increasing inflation volatility. Using a standard DSGE model, we show that these stylized facts, in particular the estimated …

inconsistency problem arising from the temptation to stimulate the economy with unexpected inflation. Although this dynamic … mechanism design problem seems complex, society can implement the optimal policy simply by legislating an inflation cap that … specifies the highest allowable inflation rate. The more severe the time inconsistency problem, the more tightly the cap …

We examine the performance of forward-looking inflation-forecast-based rules in open economies. In a New Keynesian two … the feedback parameter on inflation if the forecast horizon lies too far into the future. Second, the problem of … central banks respond to expected consumer, rather than pro- ducer price inflation. …

We find evidence that adopting an explicit inflation objective plays a role in anchoring long-run inflation … expectations and in reducing the intrinsic persistence of inflation. For the period 1994-2003, private-sector long-run inflation … forecasts exhibit significant correlation with lagged inflation for a number of industrial economies, including the United …