particular the aim of price stability, understood as low and stable inflation. Design/Research methods: The article was prepared … inflation reduces uncertainty about future price developments. This facilitates decision-making for companies concerning …

inflation targeting. To ascertain whether this policy framework satisfies the necessary condition for effectiveness, we estimate …

countries with low inflation, the raw relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money is tenuous at best … elasticities implied by theories of Baumol-Tobin and Miller-Orr. Finally, the sample after 1990 shows considerably less inflation … variability, worsening the fit of a one-for-one relationship between money growth and inflation, and generates a fairly low …

This paper reviews the key economic issues concerning the welfare costs of inflation and deflation, with a view to … shedding light on the desirable properties of the inflation process. Our review of the evidence on the overall costs of … inflation and deflation indicates that such costs could be even higher than previously thought, also at moderate rates of …

2022Q1 to understand households' expectations about price and wage inflation, their respective links to views about labour … recent research, that households associate higher expected price inflation with worse labour market conditions. In contrast … standard macroeconomic models. These differing supply-side and demand-side views of price inflation and wage inflation are …

Poland edged towards hyperinflation towards the latter half of 1989,but inflation fell dramatically after drastic … reformswere enacted in January of 1990. We analyse the consistency betweenfiscal deficits and inflation targets and assess Poland … fiscal deficits and inflation. We also assessthe impact of financial sector measures on seignioragerevenue and the …

After the introduction of a stabilization program Israeli inflation decreased from 400% in 1985 to 2% in 2013. This … process is defined by three clear steps of high, medium and low inflation. The break dates are in line with major economic …

a rationale for the practice of inflation zone targeting. We show that the presence of either zone-quadratic preferences … or a zone-linear relationship between inflation and economic activity provides strong incentives to deviate from … structure and relative preference towards economic stability in determining the width of the implied targeted inflation zone …

We construct an empirical test of whether the anticipation of adoption of inflation targeting affects the inflation … rate. We observe that most of the central banks adopt the regime after first achieving significant disinflation. With pre-inflation …-in-difference framework. We find that inflation targeting is successful in locking-in already low inflation rather than reducing high …