Empirical evidence suggests that considerable differentials in inflation rates exist across households. This paper … investigates how central banks should react to household inflation heterogeneity in a tractable New Keynesian model. We include two … households that differ in their consumer price inflation rates after adverse shocks. The central bank reacts to either an average …

the inflation–unemployment dynamics during the recession and COVID-19 times in India and the UK. Using a generalized … recession and eventually turn to stagflation in India due to inflation caused by the weak supply side. However, in the UK, the …