n recent macroeconomic theory, relative price variability (RPV) generates the central distortions of inflation. This … paper provides first evidence on the empirical relation between inflation and RPV in the euro area focusing on threshold … effects of inflation. We find that expected inflation significantly increases RPV if inflation is either very low (below -1 …

Recent monetary search models emphasize that the real effects of inflation via its impact on price dispersion depend on … the level of search costs and, thus, on the level of market integration. For less integrated markets, the inflation …-price dispersion nexus is predicted to be asymmetrically V-shaped which implies an optimal inflation rate above zero. For highly …

Monetary search theory implies that the real effects of inflation via its impact on price dispersion depend on the … level of search costs and, thus, on the level of market integration. For less integrated markets, the inflation …-price dispersion nexus is predicted to be asymmetrically V-shaped which results in an optimal inflation rate above zero. For highly …

inflation will be higher in countries where prices are initially low. Price level convergence thus provides a potential … explanation for recent cross-country differences in European inflation, a worrisome development under the ECBs "one … how much of the recent divergence of national inflation rates can be explained by price level convergence. I show that …