Inflation dynamics in Brazil are high and volatile. This short paper seeks to shed some light on the features of … inflation in Brazil and provides a non-exhaustive list, in the way of a primer, of factors that are especially important. It … also offers some suggestions for how monetary policy could deal with these factors to control inflation and bring interest …

This paper analyzes the effects of legal central bank independence (CBI) on inflation volatility in developing … countries. We discuss why CBI should curb inflation volatility, independently from its effect via lowering inflation levels … the endogeneity of CBI and inflation. Our results are robust to alternative measurements of the main variables, different …

We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure …

We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure …

We examine the effect of inflation variability and economic growth using annual historical data on both developing and … inflation variability by the five-year coefficient of variation of inflation, we obtain the following results: (1) For … developing countries, there is significant evidence to suggest that when the rate of inflation exceeds 10% inflation variability …

We analyse the interaction between private agents? uncertainty about inflation target and the central bank's data … uncertainty. In our model, private agents update their perceived inflation target and the central bank estimates unobservable … economic shocks as well as the perceived inflation target. Under those two uncertainties, the learning process of both private …