After the introduction of a stabilization program Israeli inflation decreased from 400% in 1985 to 2% in 2013. This … process is defined by three clear steps of high, medium and low inflation. The break dates are in line with major economic …

economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments that the flexible exchange rate has undermined real economic …

investigates to what extent the quality of eligible collateral is able to explain inflation employing the first comprehensive … statistically significant correlation between QEC and average inflation is found. This result is robust to the use of control …

inflation-forecast-based (IFB) rules. It shows that, for a variety of New Keynesian sticky-price and sticky-inflation models …, these are a function not just of the degree of responsiveness of the policy instrument to deviations of expected inflation …

. inflation anchoring properties. This layout is then confronted with the policy framework in use in the euro area prior to the … dis-anchoring of long-term inflation expectations experienced in the euro area since 2013, however, suggests that the … policy framework could benefit from a rebalancing towards a formulation with stronger anchoring properties. The inflation aim …

too-low inflation. The experience of the Bank of Japan's encounter with the zero lower bound suggests important benefits … from a clear definition of price stability as a symmetric 2% goal for inflation, which the Bank adopted in 2013. …

We study the characteristics of inflation targeting as a shock absorber, using quarterly data for a large panel of … natural disasters. We find that inflation targeting improves macroeconomic performance following such exogenous shocks. It … lowers inflation, raises output growth, and reduces inflation and growth variability compared to alternative monetary regimes …

estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop alternative inflation measures in Germany since the introduction of … the euro. Real economic growth as well as median wage developments are reexamined in light of the alternative inflation …