This paper provides an overview of statistical measurement issues relating to alternative measures of core inflation …

higher food shares in CPI baskets, fuel intensities, and pre-existing inflation levels were more prone to experience … scores seem to have contained the impact of these shocks better. The effect of the presence of inflation targeting regimes … inflation responds to international commodity price shocks. …

Inflation targeting (IT) serves as monetary policy framework in several advanced economies, where it has enhanced … instruments to inflation. These prerequisites are largely absent among developing countries, though several of them could with … some further institutional changes and an overriding commitment to low inflation make use of an IT framework. …

with a lag of at least three quarters, with inflation taking seven quarters to respond. Inflation is inertial and … persistent when it sets in, irrespective of the source. Exchange rate pass-through to domestic inflation is low. Inflation turns …

This article uses two analytical methodologies to understand the dynamics of inflation in Paraguay, the mark-up theory … of inflation and the monetary theory of inflation. We also study the impact of different monetary aggregates. The results … suggest that monetary factors, in particular currency in circulation, play a major role in determining long-run inflation …

This paper investigates how consumer price inflation is determined in Mali for 1979-2006 along three macroeconomic … long-run determinants of inflation. The paper offers policy recommendations for controlling inflation in Mali. …

During the first half of 2008, Sri Lanka witnessed significantly higher inflation than most other emerging Asian … countries. Inflation has since declined amid declining world commodity prices and tight monetary policy. Given the sensitivity … to global commodity prices, a core inflation measure could be useful for monetary policy. The purpose of this paper is to …

This paper pursues a computationally intensive approach to generate future inflation, followed by an exploration of the … determinants of inflation expectations by estimating a new Keynesian type Phillips curve that takes into account country … indicate that high and climbing inflation could easily seep into people’s anticipation of future inflation and linger. There …

a small macro model with NAIRU uncertainity under different assumptions about the way inflation expectations are formed … inflation expectations respond endogenuously policy credibility strengthens the case for forward-looking inflation forecast …