particular the aim of price stability, understood as low and stable inflation. Design/Research methods: The article was prepared … inflation reduces uncertainty about future price developments. This facilitates decision-making for companies concerning …

investigates to what extent the quality of eligible collateral is able to explain inflation employing the first comprehensive … statistically significant correlation between QEC and average inflation is found. This result is robust to the use of control …

The popularity of inflation targeting has risen in the last decade and the number of countries that adopted inflation … targeting as their monetary policy framework surpassed 40 by the end of 2016. This study analyzes whether inflation targeting … around the world has been successful in terms of achieving the announced target and keeping inflation rate around it. We …

estimating the effect on overall headline inflation, we examine effects on its 12 main sub-indices and further sub-categories of … food price inflation. This allows us to disentangle differences in the direction and strength of price effects across … consumption categories. Our results suggest significant positive effects of natural disasters on overall headline inflation, with …

and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetarytarget helps anchoring inflation and inflation … as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to theactivity growth gap. In contrast, the response to …

contracts specify forward-looking wage indexation. Compared with contracts specifying backward-looking wage indexation or wages … based on static expectations, such contracts will result in a greater reduction in inflation with lower output costs …, smaller misalignment of real wages, smaller outflows of reserves, smaller disruptions caused by policy announcements, and a …