datasets collected in a period with relatively low and stable inflation. First, price changes are infrequent in the core … change is smaller, but nevertheless larger than inflation. Third, price setting is mildly state-dependent: the probability of … in aggregate inflation, which instead mainly reflected shifts in the average size of price changes. Consistent with …

, and Belgium and Malta being the largest losers. Governments are net winners of inflation, while the household (HH) sector … Spain turn out to be net winners of inflation. Considerable heterogeneity exists also within the HH sector: relatively young … middle class HHs are net winners of inflation, while older and richer HHs are losers. As a result, wealth inequality for the …

Competitiveness adjustment in struggling southern euro-area members requires persistently lower inflation than in major … trading partners, but low inflation worsens public debt sustainability. When average euro-area inflation undershoots the two …, inflation and budget surplus assumptions can easily result in a runaway debt trajectory. The case for a greater than five …

, and Belgium and Malta being the largest losers. Governments are net winners of inflation, while the household (HH) sector …, while HHs in Finland and Spain turn out to be net winners of inflation. Considerable heterogeneity exists also within the HH … sector: relatively young middle class HHs are net winners of inflation, while older and richer HHs are losers. As a result …

, inflation and unemployment, we detect a wrong sign in the response of inflation to contractionary monetary policy shocks … 1999-2019, when the Federal Funds Rate and the Euro-Dollar exchange rate are added to the VAR model inflation shows … significant unemployment inflation trade-off emerges. These conclusions are confirmed by using industrial production instead of …