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 …

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 …

policies in these periods with respect to monetary stability, inflation, and growth challenges. The paper presents an analysis …

inflation and output stabilisation mandates of the CBN. The study also finds that inclusion of more instruments in the CBN … therefore emphasises the difficulty of the CBN to effectively manage inflation and output stabilisation simultaneously, which …

. Deflation subsided by 2005. As soon as inflation appeared to stabilize near a rate of zero, the Bank of Japan rapidly reduced …

This paper aims to contribute to a better understanding on how inflation targets are set. For this reason, we first … inflation targets are set; we then estimate the determinants of the level of inflation target in 19 inflation targeting … than as a point). Inflation targets are found to reflect macroeconomic fundamentals. Higher level as well as higher …

provides a new perspective on the policy roots of inflation in developed economies. More precisely, the paper demonstrates that … if the distribution of the supply shocks is normal, then the reduced form solution for inflation implies a positive (or … negative) relation between average inflation and the variance of shocks. We argue that the evidence offered in support of this …

-shaped relation between the membership size of MPCs and inflation; our results suggest that the lowest level of inflation is reached … at MPCs with about seven to ten members. Similar results are obtained for other measures, such as inflation variability …

-shaped relation between the membership size of MPCs and inflation; our results suggest that the lowest level of inflation is reached … at MPCs with about seven to ten members. Similar results are obtained for other measures, such as inflation variability …