between inflation dynamics and rising market concentration. …

This study sought to identify the traditional and institutional inflation variables responsible for inflation … year. The study therefore concluded that inflation in Nigeria, during the studied period, was driven by the pass-through of … import prices to domestic prices via markup pricing by firms. This was aided by domestic inflation persistence. It is …

Standard New Keynesian (NK) models feature an optimal inflation target well below two percent, limited welfare losses …-run Phillips curve between inflation and unemployment and a trade-off between price distortions and output hysteresis that change … the welfare-maximizing inflation level. For a plausible set of parameters, the optimal inflation target is in excess of …

through to all components of euro area inflation - producer prices, wages and core inflation, which has implications for …

. Previous literature has highlighted the role of an economy's "structure" - such as its inflation volatility, inflation rate …, forecasts predicting how a given exchange rate movement will impact inflation at a specific point in time should take into …

since the early 1990s for a group of 9 economies, 5 of which explicitly target inflation, and ask: To what extent are … disagreements over forecasts of inflation driven by movements in relative prices? The empirical evidence leads to the following … conclusions. First, there is little doubt that IT has contributed to narrowing the forecast differences vis-a-vis U.S. inflation …

stability. This paper investigates the effects of commodity price shocks on headline inflation with a monthly panel consisting … of 144 countries. We find that the effects of commodity price shocks on inflation virtually disappear within about one … fairly robust, suggesting a low risk of a persistent second-round effect on inflation. Employing the smooth transition …

In the paper we investigate, which shocks drive inflation in small open economies. We proceed in two steps. First, we … variables. Our results show that in two out of three analyzed countries the fluctuations of inflation are to the largest extent … inflation variability while for the third country the contribution of the commodity shock dominates over the output gap in …

factors that influence trend inflation in the USA. Using structural shocks that incorporate a broad set of information for the … US economy, we find that four structural shocks have significant effects on trend inflation: productivity, price mark …-up, government policy, and finance. During and in the aftermath of the Great Recession, trend inflation became more volatile after …