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 …

Many emerging market economies have a higher tolerance for inflation than industrialized economies. Recent empirical … studies find nonlinear effects of inflation and that the threshold rate is higher for emerging countries. Motivated by the … occupational decisions and affect the inflation-output tradeoff …

It has been argued that economies with more independent central banks experience lower inflation over time. In this … the inflation rate dynamics. Second, we implement a panel data analysis. We find evidence that legislative reforms that … modify the degree of independence of a central bank have a strong impact on the inflation rate dynamics. Moreover, underlying …

framework is then used to interpret the evolution of central bank independence from the Great Inflation throughout the Great …

private sector inflation forecasts. But beyond the optimum people might: (1) start to attach too much weight to the … deteriorates the (perceived) quality of private sector inflation forecasts. Inflation then is set in a more backward looking manner … resulting in higher inflation persistence. By using a panel data set on the transparency of 100 central banks we find empirical …

After almost four decades of price stability, inflation has recently approached historical highs. Initially driven by … global energy and food price increases, the magnitude of the surge in inflation caught central banks and markets by surprise … monetary policy tightening, inflation upside risks are large. How can central banks restore control - and with it their own …

We study how carbon pricing has affected inflation ex-post, using dynamic panel estimation of New-Keynesian Phillips … carbon taxes. We find that an increase in prices of ETS by $10 per ton of CO2 equivalents increases energy CPI inflation by 0 ….8 percentage points (pp), and headline inflation by 0.08pp, but has no significant effects on food and core CPI inflation. We also …

Inflation dynamics have been difficult to explain over the last decade. This paper explores if a more comprehensive … treatment of globalization can help. CPI inflation has become more synchronized around the world since the 2008 crisis, but core … and wage inflation have become less synchronized. Global factors (including commodity prices, world slack, exchange rates …

Is inflation (still) a global phenomenon? We study the international co-movement of inflation based on a dynamic factor … explains approximately 58% of the variation in headline inflation across all countries and over 72% in OECD economies. The … explanatory power of global inflation is equally high in a shorter sample spanning the time since 2000. Core inflation is also …