conditions and explore the possibility under which a policy tack that targets inflation stability, output stability, or both, can … efficient business cycle outcomes (inflation and output stability). We find that there is a range of inflation and output target … weights that simultaneously stabilize inflation and output. We call this condition, produced by these weights, inflation …

there is a significant backward looking element in inflation behaviour. This cyclical instability can be mitigated if fiscal … policy in each member country reacts to inflation differences, but it can be aggravated if fiscal feedback on debt is too …

coordinated wage bargaining systems have a dampening impact on inflation volatility. …

aggregate inflation and the higher-order moments of the distribution of relative price changes. Our empirical findings confirm … explanatory variable for the inflation rate. Further, the skewness measure also helps to explain shifts in the Phillips curve …

aggregate inflation and the higher-order moments of the distribution of relative price changes. Our empirical findings confirm … explanatory variable for the inflation rate. Further, the skewness measure also helps to explain shifts in the Phillips curve …

across the sample. Evidence in favour of a diminishing effect of oil price shocks on the output and inflation is found from … in the last part of the 1990s and, especially, for the CPI inflation in the 2000s. The most outstanding result is that … the oil price movements could explain at least some of the recent inflation, the main difference between these outcomes …