The main focus of the present paper is to analyze the impacts of financial policy on inflation rates. The analysis … utilized to reflect the relations between financial policy and inflation. Thus, more lights are shed on the fact that the first … components represented in governmental expenditure and taxation and the dependant variable inflation. The results show that there …

We empirically characterize episodes of large inflation surges that have been observed worldwide in the last three … decades. We document four facts. (1) Inflation surges tend to be persistent, with the duration of disinflation exceeding that … of the initial inflation increase. (2) Surges are initially unexpected but followed by a gradual catch-up of average …

economies. The general findings for monetary policy are that, while it was costly to lower inflation (in terms of output and … inflation further from its already low level. While inflation was being lowered, in a number of cases central banks were also … evidence that these changes have helped in terms of better anchoring inflation expectations. At the same time there is no firm …