1970s’ United States would not have prevented the Great Inflation. We show that a standard policy counterfactual suggests … that the Bundesbank–which is near-universally credited for sparing West Germany the Great Inflation–would also not have … been able to prevent the Great Inflation in the United States. The sheer implausibility of this result sounds a cautionary …

1970s' United States would not have prevented the Great Inflation. We show that a standard policy counterfactual suggests … that the Bundesbank – which is near-universally credited for sparing West Germany the Great Inflation – would also not have … been able to prevent the Great Inflation in the United States. The sheer implausibility of this result sounds a cautionary …

1970s' United States would not have prevented the Great Inflation. We show that a standard policy counterfactual suggests … that the Bundesbank - which is near-universally credited for sparing West Germany the Great Inflation - would also not have … been able to prevent the Great Inflation in the United States. The sheer implausibility of this result sounds a cautionary …

explain the persistence of inflation. However, both of these theories are inconsistent with the micro data on prices. In this … difference between the GTE and its popular alternatives in terms of inflation persistence, a difference arises when it comes to …

estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of … the euro. Real economic growth as well as median wage developments are reexamined in light of the alternative inflation …

is constructed for the German monetary sector based on M3, GNP, an inflation rate, a long-term interest rate and a short …-term rate which represents the policy variable of the DBB. Moreover, import price inflation is included as an exogenous variable …

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 …