This paper studies the role of global factors in causing common movements in consumer price inflation, with particular … collected from national and international sources. Global factors explain a large share of the variance of national inflation …

This book is a non-technical introduction to the history of - and current measurement practice of - inflation for the … United Kingdom, with comparative international case studies. The authors describe the historical development of inflation … few specialist scholars. Although inflation is a widely used and quoted statistic, and despite the important role …

This paper studies the role of global factors in causing common movements in consumer price inflation, with particular … collected from national and international sources. Global factors explain a large share of the variance of national inflation …

The standard measure of core or underlying inflation is the inflation rate excluding food and energy prices. This paper … constructs an alternative measure, the weighted median inflation rate, for 38 advanced and emerging economies using subclass …, and more closely related to headline inflation over the next year. The weighted median also has a drawback: in most …