The paper examines the relative significance of monetary aggregates and interest rates in China using the information … information about future movements in inflation …

The paper analyses the reasons for Japan's persistently low inflation since the bursting of the Japanese bubble economy … (low inflation conundrum). It is shown that Japan experienced a structural break from a high-growth period with relatively … high inflation to a low-growth period with exceptionally low inflation since the early 1990s. We show based on a stylized …

view of inflation. Second, we discuss how the recent inflationary episode has contributed to redistributing real resources …

The paper adds money supply and inflation expectations shocks to a well-known three-variable structural model that … supply and to inflation expectations significantly increase real oil prices; with the unadjusted M1 aggregate there is no … role played by inflation expectations and the money supply shocks during major oil shock episodes. These shocks partially …