This paper evaluates the usefulness of various measures of core inflation for the conduct of monetary policy …. Traditional exclusion-based measures of core inflation are found to perform relatively poorly across a range of evaluation … move with macroeconomic drivers. All measures of core inflation, however, have limitations - consequently, there is merit …

inflation such as the U.S. and Canada. For example, in Canada, a systematic review of the current inflation targeting framework … assessing the redistributional effects of inflation in Canada that arise through the revaluation of nominal assets and … effects of inflation. This omission is likely to be important since the welfare costs of inflation depend not only on …