. Using a new database for 21 countries, the effect of relative price variability on inflation is estimated within a framework … controlling for nominal and real shocks. Money and wage growth were the most important determinants of inflation; relative price …In light of the persistence of moderate inflation in many transition economies, this paper analyzes whether inflation …

between inflation and output stability. While the comovement of price dispersion and inflation implied by standard models is … the data, the comovement of price dispersion and inflation turns positive. Nevertheless, I show that a wide variety of …In macroeconomic models, the level of price dispersion - which is typically approximated through its relationship with …

The conventional wisdom that inflation expectations respond to the level of the price of oil (or the price of gasoline … price shocks may indeed drive one-year household inflation expectations. The model shows that there have been several such … episodes since 1990. In particular, the rise in household inflation expectations between 2009 and 2013 is almost entirely …

frequency vector autoregression (VAR). It shows that potential causalities for inflation, relative price variability, relative …This paper investigates the dynamic interactions of the cross-section distribution of sectoral price changes and the … price skewness, and output growth can be successfully detected by the MFVAR. The cross-section distribution of sectoral …

influence of cocoa prices on consumer price inflation is strong and statistically significant. The influence of the budget …We verify whether cocoa prices could be a source of inflation in five countries of the West African region within a … remittances enables us to examine the effect of an international capital flow variable on inflation. The results reveal that the …