This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the … change associated with the start of EMU in 1999. The main findings are as follows. Steadystate inflation and inflation … can achieve lower inflation uncertainty by lowering the inflation rate. …

inflation should differ between inflation and deflation episodes, using data for Japan and Hong Kong. We use a random … during both the inflation and deflation periods, and the parameter on the second moment changes sign in the deflation period …

Why is inflation, 15 years after transition started, still considerably higher in Romania than in the eight EU member … decompose the inflation differential between Romania and the EU-8. The decomposition suggests that neither the revenue, nor the … balance of payments, nor the financial stability motive are driving inflation; rather structural differences are at play. The …

inflation rates mainly to make up for, and to perhaps exploit, lagging internal and external liberalization in their economies … changes in institutions, suggest that incentives may be diminishing, but not to the point where inflation levels below 5 … inflation, and enhancements to central bank independence could help shield these central banks from pressures. …

aggregate inflation and the higher-order moments of the distribution of relative price changes. Our empirical findings confirm … explanatory variable for the inflation rate. Further, the skewness measure also helps to explain shifts in the Phillips curve …

We find that inflation did not unanimously decrease savings in the US during the postwar period. This result is …

An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … inflation to its reduced form determinants. These findings are attributed to the behaviour of wages following movements in …

and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

During the last two decades, the world has experienced a remarkable process of disinflation, with average inflation … rates in industrialized countries falling by 10 percentage points and an even sharper decline of the mean rate of inflation … in developing countries. Parallel to the decline in inflation rates, a tremendous increase in economic integration …