When faced with a relative price shock, monetary authorities often aim to contain its second round effects on inflation … while accepting first round effects. We analyze the experience of South Africa and other inflation targeters to explore … whether and when this policy prescription implies changing the monetary policy stance. Inflation targeting central banks …

We analyze the evolution and drivers of inflation during the pandemic and the likely trajectory of inflation in the … near-term using an event study of inflation around global recessions and a factor-augmented vector auto-regression (FAVAR …) model. We report three main results. First, the decline in global inflation during the 2020 global recession was the most …

structural polices for an older, indebted and more fragmented world. …, the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, the Great Inflation, the Latin American hyperinflation(s), the Great Moderation … until the highest global inflation spike in two generations which started in 2021. The book covers these dynamics in …