We combine the ideas of the trimmed mean and the Edgeworth index to construct an alternative measure of core inflation named "Trim of Most Volatile Components (TMVC)". At each point of time this measure trims away the components of the price index, which have been most volatile in the past. TMVC...

In this paper we analyze the contribution of international measures of inflation to predict local ones. To that end, we consider the set of current thirty one OECD economies for which inflation data is available at a monthly frequency. By considering this set of countries, a span of time...