Headline inflation in most industrialized countries, the US in particular, has been shown to be mean reverting to core … inflation in the medium term, whilst at the same time the pass-through of exogenous commodity price shocks from the headline to … volatility for the latter and creates a drive for investing in commodities as a hedge for the spread between both inflation …

What are the implications of targeting different measures of inflation? We extend a basic theoretical framework of … optimal monetary policy under inflation targeting to include several components of CPI inflation ratio, and analyze the … implications of using different measures of inflation as target variable core inflation, CPI excluding interest rates, and headline …

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 …

This paper provides a review of the concept of core inflation and evaluates the performance of several proposed … measures. We first consider the rationale of a central bank in setting its inflation goal in terms of a selected rate of … consumer price growth and the use of a core inflation measure as a means of achieving this long-term policy objective. We then …

We provide an updated evaluation of the value of various measures of core inflation that could be used in the conduct … of monetary policy. We find that the Bank of Canada's current preferred measures of core inflation-CPI-trim, CPI … biased, less volatile and much more persistent relative to alternative core measures and CPI inflation. They are also still …