Inflation in advanced economies is low by historical standards but there is no threat of deflation. Slower economic … growth is caused by supply-side constraints rather than low inflation. Below-the-target inflation does not damage the … reputation of central banks. Thus, central banks should not try to bring inflation back to the targeted level of 2%. Rather, they …

do not force a central bank to tolerate higher inflation, but may generate a tradeoff between the central bank …'s objectives for inflation and real activity. The presence and size of this tradeoff depends on how flexible prices are in the …

signals, we show that the release of more precise public information about future rates lowers the informativeness of market …. However, when the increase in precision of public information is sufficiently large, uncertainty is unambiguously reduced. …

for the economy-inflation and devaluation. The purpose of the research is to analyze the socio-economic results of … inflation and devaluation in Georgia and to determine the main directions to overcome it. Due to study purposes was investigated … the causes of inflation and devaluation, as well as was examined its influence on economic development of the country and …

private sector inflation forecasts. But beyond the optimum people might: (1) start to attach too much weight to the … conditionality of their forecasts, and/or (2) get confused by the large and increasing amount of information they receive. This … deteriorates the (perceived) quality of private sector inflation forecasts. Inflation then is set in a more backward looking manner …

The inability of central banks to attain their target inflation rates in recent years has raised questions about the … extent to which central banks can control the inflation process. This paper discusses the evolution of thought and evidence … since the 1960s on the determinants of inflation and the role that should be played by central banks. The paper highlights …

We construct an empirical test of whether the anticipation of adoption of inflation targeting affects the inflation … rate. We observe that most of the central banks adopt the regime after first achieving significant disinflation. With pre-inflation …-in-difference framework. We find that inflation targeting is successful in locking-in already low inflation rather than reducing high …

The inflation targeting (IT) regime is 17 years old. With practice of IT now in more than 21 countries, there is enough … evidence gathered to take stock of the IT experience. In this paper, we analyze the inflation record of IT central banks. We … extend the work of Albagli and Schmidt-Hebbel (2004) by looking at a broad range of factors that can influence inflation …