output gap, and inflation in Chile, Korea, Mexico, and Turkey, using a generalized vector autoregression analysis. Nominal … historical wage shocks are shown to have an important effect on movements in inflation only in Mexico. Generalized impulse … reduction in output. Inflation increases in all countries, particularly Mexico. A positive shock to nominal money growth raises …

flexible prices. Second, under the optimal policy the volatility of non-tradable inflation is close to zero. Third, stabilizing … nontradable inflation is optimal regardless of the financial structure of the small open economy. Even for a moderate degree of …

inflation …

panel regressions, we find a negative relationship between legal central bank independence (CBI) and inflation. This result … holds for three alternative measures of CBI and after controlling for international inflation, banking crises, and exchange … fails, however, to find a causal relationship running from CBI to inflation …

. There is strong evidence of a positive and significant association between the pass-through and the average inflation rate … across countries and periods. The inflation rate, moreover, dominates other macroeconomic variables in explaining cross …

While inflation differentials in a monetary union can be benign, reflecting a catch-up process, or an adjustment … domestic product and labor markets that amplify or make more persistent the impact of shocks on inflation. The paper examines … the determinants of inflation differentials in the euro area, with emphasis on the role of country specific labor and …

This paper uses a pairwise approach to investigate the main factors that have been driving inflation differentials in … the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region for the past two decades. The results suggest that inflation differentials in …

In this paper we study the dynamics of inflation in Macedonia, provide three forecasting tools and draw some policy … conclusions from the quantitative results. We explore three forecasting methods for inflation. We use a Dynamic Factor Model (DFM … New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC) for a more structural model of inflation. The NKPC shows a significant effect of …

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating …-maximizing central bank should adopt flexible headline inflation targeting a target for headline CPI inflation with some weight on the …