We combine an estimated monetary policy rule featuring time-varying trend inflation and stochastic coefficients with a … medium scale New Keynesian framework calibrated on the U.S. economy. We find the impact of variations in trend inflation on … counterfactual exercises suggest that the change in the Federal Reserve's policy response to inflation is likely to have been the …

-run trade-offs between output and inflation: lower trend inflation flattens the Phillips curve and decreases steady-state output … by increasing markups. We show that the aggregator reduces both the steady-state welfare cost of higher trend inflation … and the inflation-related weight in a model-based welfare function for higher trend inflation. Consequently, optimal trend …

This paper investigates the relationship between the Great Moderation and two measures of inflation performance: trend … inflation and inflation volatility. Using annual data from 1970 to 2011 for a large panel of 180 developed and developing … empirical findings show that the effect of inflation volatility is positive, while the effect of trend inflation is negative …

growth regime. Since the great financial crisis inflation developments have posed major puzzles to economists as inflation … paper analyses whether the wage-price pass-through may have contributed to these inflation puzzles. Applying the Threshold … or diminish the puzzle of the missing disinflation of the past two recessions suggesting that inflation should be …