This paper documents five facts about inflation expectations in the euro area. First, individual inflation forecasts … overreact to individual news. Second, the cross-section average of individual forecasts of inflation underreact to shocks … initially, but overreacts in the medium term. Third, disagreement about future inflation increases in response to news when the …

Over the last two centuries, the cross-spectral coherence between either narrow or broad money growth and inflation at … other countries, thus implying that the fraction of inflation’s long-run variation explained by long-run money growth has … correspondence with the inflationary outbursts associated with World War I and the Great Inflation–but not World War II …

We document that about 33% of the core inflation basket in the euro area is sensitive to monetary policy shocks. We …. Estimations over different samples show that the impact of monetary policy shocks on sensitive core inflation has become larger …

, we demonstrate that effort dampens the response of inflation to exogenous shocks. …

inflationary pressure. In this case, default and inflation risks can reinforce each other. …

Following Fuhrer and Moore (1995), several authors have proposed alternative mechanisms to ‘hardwire’ inflation … European Monetary Union, of inflation-targeting countries, and of the new Swiss monetary policy regime, I show that, in the …), the parameters encoding the ‘intrinsic’ component of inflation persistence are not invariant across monetary policy …

This article analyses agents’ perception of the period of low inflation in recent years, in the context of a model in … to be drawn between which portion of the low inflation phenomenon might be due to temporary factors and which might be … considered permanent. The results of the analysis for the euro area suggest that agents perceive the inflation rate’s recent …