that our "effective" approach is superior when it comes to assessing the impact of exchange rate regimes on inflation … trading partners. Using our measure of effective exchange rate regimes in a standard empirical analysis of inflation … associated with significantly lower inflation rates. This challenges the established view that soft pegs do not matter - or are …

Foreign price shocks have significant effects on functional income distribution and on inflation inequality. By ….g. food prices for low-wage workers). Based on the conflicting-claims inflation literature, we propose a new extension to this … with an inflation-targeting regime. We investigate the impacts of foreign price shocks on income and inflation inequality …

-2001 had an important impact on inflation divergence within the EMU and in particular the surge in Ireland’s inflation to over … contribute to inflation convergence and in particular to a fall in Irish inflation? Fortunately for us, the theory has passed the … test with flying colours. Irish inflation stopped dead in its tracks: consumer prices were unchanged between May and …

competition to influence domestic inflation. By comparing the unrestricted and restricted specifications, we provide evidence that … foreign competition plays an important role in accounting for the behavior of inflation in the traded goods sector. Our … inflation in the 1990s. Our results also provide evidence against demand curves with a constant elasticity in the context of …

the effect of oil shocks on inflation. First, we estimate the traditional Phillips curve augmented to include oil and test … countries for which we have sufficient data. We derive impulse response functions of inflation to oil shocks and interpret the … integrals as estimates of pass-through. We find that the effect of oil shocks on inflation has weakened for most of the 12 …

This paper aims at evaluating the impact of globalization, if any, on inflation and the inflation process. We estimate … commodity import price inflation on CPI inflation depends on the volume of commodity imports while the impact of non …-commodity import price inflation is independent of the volume of non-commodity imports. Second, focusing on the role of intra …

rates of inflation if the two assets are highly substitutable under the baseline scenario. After the benchmark economy is … implies that, higher currency substitution is welfare enhancing for high inflation rates but not for moderate and low … inflation rates. In other words, currency substitution is not necessarily welfare enhancing. …

Using data for 102 developing countries, it is shown that inflation persistence is particularly high in countries with … severe inflationary problems, and particularly low in countries on hard pegs. Inflation persistence is similar under floating …