the economy, when assuming that the monetary authority put higher weight on inflation stabilization than society. We … demonstrate that inflation-conservatism unambiguously leads to social welfare losses if the fiscal authority acts strategically …

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating … stabilize price movements in the flexible price sector. Also, in the presence of financial frictions, stabilizing core inflation … frictions a welfare-maximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting a target based on headline rather …

alternative monetary policy strategies. We start with the relationship between output and inflation and investigate the fit of the … reject the nominal contracting model in favor of the relative contracting model which induces more inflation persistence, we … in countries which transitioned out of a high inflation regime such as France and Italy. We close the model by estimating …

This paper studies monetary policy rules in a small open economy with Inflation Targeting, incomplete pass-through and …

In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize … is high. We develop an open economy model with incomplete financial markets to show that headline inflation targeting … headline inflation, assigns zero weight to import prices. …

. We use a microfounded New Keynesian model of a monetary union which incorporates persistence in inflation, and examine … non-cooperative interactions of fiscal and monetary authorities. We find that particularly when inflation is persistent …

Since the early 1980s, the United States economy has changed in some important ways: Inflation now rises considerably … less when unemployment falls and the volatility of output and inflation have fallen sharply. This paper examines whether … volatility of monetary policy reaction functions can account for most or all of the change in the inflation …

inflation. Previous studies, which assume a constant degree of price rigidity across inflation regimes, find two time consistent … equilibria - one with low inflation, the other with high inflation. In contrast, when price rigidity is endogenous, the high … inflation equilibrium ceases to exist. Hence, time consistent equilibrium is unique. This result depends on two features of the …

independence and inflation. In this paper, we construct a theory where the relationship between inflation and central bank … inflation or costly fiscal expansion) rejects the monetary policy proposal of the central bank (which aims to minimize inflation …, increasing the fixed cost of rejecting the central bank's offer creates two opposite effects on inflation: delegation effect and …

determinant of the monetary transmission mechanism, namely the degree of persistence characterising the inflation process. The … types of staggered contracts specifications which induce quite different degrees of inflation persistence. The paper shows … that inflation persistence is high when uncertainty about the prevailing degree of inflation persistence is pervasive …