The past years were characterized by unprecedented rises in prices of commodities such as oil or wheat and inflation … indicate future CPI inflation and if they can be used as indicator variables for central banks or not. We apply various … strong link between commodity prices and CPI inflation in the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. For a more recent sample …

We develop a time-varying transition probabilities Markov Switching model in which inflation is characterised by two … regimes (high and low inflation). Using Bayesian techniques, we apply the model to the euro area, Germany, the US, the UK and … switches between inflation regimes. Thus money growth provides an important early warning indicator for risks to price …