higher food shares in CPI baskets, fuel intensities, and pre-existing inflation levels were more prone to experience … scores seem to have contained the impact of these shocks better. The effect of the presence of inflation targeting regimes … inflation responds to international commodity price shocks …

, and current account liberalization; and (ii) inflation and various determinants, including lagged inflation, the nominal … and the real exchange rate are significant determinants but not the exchange regime or liberalization; and for inflation …, the lagged inflation rate, nominal exchange rate, and the de facto regime are significant. Exchange rate pass-through is …

This paper estimates a small open economy model for Egypt to analyze inflation, output dynamics and monetary policy … markets and a gradual move towards inflation targeting can help support a successful disinflation strategy for Egypt …

Cross-Country Report on Inflation: Selected Issues …

inflation. We discuss dollarization, administrative interventions, and other features complicating monetary policy transmission …

The Maastricht inflation criterion, designed in the early 1990s to bring ""high-inflation"" EU countries in line with … ""low-inflation"" countries prior to the introduction of the euro, poses challenges for both new EU member countries and the … European Central Bank. While the criterion has positively influenced the public stance toward low inflation, it has biased the …

This paper provides an overview of statistical measurement issues relating to alternative measures of core inflation …

How should a central bank organize itself to produce the best possible inflation forecast? This paper discusses … elements for building a comprehensive platform for an inflation forecasting framework. It describes the exercise of forecasting … inflation as a production process, which induces a strict discipline concerning data management, information gathering, the use …

Financial instruments are subject to inflation taxes on the wealth they represent and on the nominal income flows they … production and shows that the value of the firm in this case is equal to the firm’s capital stock divided by inflation. The … resulting asset-pricing conditions indicate that the effect of inflation on asset returns differs from the effects found in …