We apply classical econometric method to characterize the dynamic behavior of the quarter-on-quarter inflation over the … inflation series and as well as for the consumer price inflation at representative product groups level, taking into account the … influence of structural breaks in the mean of inflation on the level of persistence. We find strong evidence for a break in the …

This paper examines the distribution of Belgian consumer prices and its interaction with aggregate inflation over the … aggregate inflation, irrespective of the average inflation rate. The dispersion of relative prices has also a positive impact on … aggregate inflation in the short run and this impact is significantly lower in the sub-sample starting in 1988 than in the pre …

The correlation between persistent changes in the markup in one sector of an economy and the inflation rate is …. We find that the correlation is in general positive under an exogenous money growth rule as well as under an inflation … targeting rule. That is, a decrease of the markup leads to a decrease in the CPI-inflation rate. However, if inflation is …

In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize … is high. We develop an open economy model with incomplete financial markets to show that headline inflation targeting … headline inflation, assigns zero weight to import prices. …