This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on ?frictional growth,? describing the … expectations, there is a long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our empirical analysis suggests that this Phillips curve may be … reasonably flat. We show that the persistence of inflation and unemployment, in response to monetary policy shocks, is related to …

This paper focuses on modeling and forecasting inflation in India using an augmented Phillips curve framework. Both … demand and supply factors are seen as drivers of inflation. Demand conditions are found to have a stronger impact on non …-food manufactured products (NFMP) inflation vis-a-vis headline wholesale price inflation; moreover, NFMP inflation is found to be more …

Abwärtsnominallohnrigidität selbst vom inflationären Umfeld abhängt und in Jahren mit niedriger Inflation sinkt. This paper examines the existence … nominal wage rigidity - under a constant degree of rigidity - are the higher, the lower the inflation rate is. For inflation … of the rigidity itself sinks during years of low inflation. …

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 …

policy has a strong and statistically significant impact on broad money, non-oil activity, and inflation in the GCC region …

Was UK inflation more stable and/or less uncertain before 1914 or after 1945? We address these questions by estimating … a statistical model with changing volatilities in transient and persistent components of inflation. Three conclusions …

This Selected Issues paper examines the acceleration of inflation over the past year in Chile, identifying domestic … compares it with alternative policy rules. The paper concludes that Chile’s framework based on an explicit inflation target, a …