This paper uses a “trendy” approach to understand UK inflation dynamics. It focuses on the time series to isolate a low‐frequency and slow moving component of inflation (the trend) from deviations around this trend. We find that this slow‐moving trend explains a substantial share of UK...

Can macroprudential foreign exchange (FX) regulations on banks reduce the financial and macroeconomic vulnerabilities created by borrowing in foreign currency? To evaluate the effectiveness and unintended consequences of macroprudential FX regulation, we develop a parsimonious model of bank and...

This paper uses a "trendy" approach to understand UK inflation dynamics. It focuses on the time series to isolate a low-frequency and slow-moving component of inflation (the trend) from deviations around this trend. We find that this slow-moving trend explains a substantial share of UK inflation...