The inability of central banks to attain their target inflation rates in recent years has raised questions about the … extent to which central banks can control the inflation process. This paper discusses the evolution of thought and evidence … since the 1960s on the determinants of inflation and the role that should be played by central banks. The paper highlights …

We construct an empirical test of whether the anticipation of adoption of inflation targeting affects the inflation … rate. We observe that most of the central banks adopt the regime after first achieving significant disinflation. With pre-inflation …-in-difference framework. We find that inflation targeting is successful in locking-in already low inflation rather than reducing high …

investigates to what extent the quality of eligible collateral is able to explain inflation employing the first comprehensive … statistically significant correlation between QEC and average inflation is found. This result is robust to the use of control …

There is no unifying framework for evaluating core inflation measures, so we propose a methodological framework to … close this gap. It allows us to construct, evaluate, and rank core inflation measures by applying it to countries and … the usual indicator that excludes food and energy, which is the most widespread measure of core inflation among central …

, however, is the incompleteness of its reform process: the boom-bust nature of its growth, persistently high inflation, delays …, to reduce inflation to single digits by the end of 2002. Since then, though, Turkey has experienced two financial crises … and redesigned its stabilization program to bring inflation down more gradually. This collection analyzes the nature of …

monetary policy decision making: the use of a broader inflation measure that gives substantial weight to house prices and is … considered along with headline CPI inflation. We argue that, in terms of theory, the broader inflation gauge is at least as … suitable for measuring the value of money as headline CPI inflation is, but we also acknowledge practical problems that arise …