paper presents a survey of output gap modeling techniques, which are of special interest for policy making institutions. We …

This thesis is a collection of papers that use survey data to analyze expectations about macroeconomic variables and … most of the individual forecasts in the Consensus survey data set have fairly good properties with respect to unbiasedness … explain the development of inflation dynamics and the formation process of inflation expectations of households respectively. We …

involving changes in the inflation and monetary-policy regimes: the move to floating exchange rates following the breakdown of … throughout the industrialized world a decade later. In the case of the float, inflation which had been rising since the mid-1960s …. Following the shifts to less expansive domestic policy, inflation peaked in most of those same countries and has continued to …

activities in the commodity markets over the past decade to price inflation. The paper argues that government regulatory policies …

would lead to more general food inflation, but by early 2009 interest focused more on the seeming inability of food prices … retail food price inflation. …

non- payments to compensate incompletely for the costs of inflation. …