Post-covid inflation was predominantly driven by unexpectedly strong demand forces, not only in the United States, but … inflation near its 2-percent target---would have severely hampered an already anaemic recovery …

Empirical evidence suggests consumers rely on their shopping experiences to form beliefs about inflation. In other …. Learning by shopping anchors households' beliefs about inflation to its past, causing disagreement with firms over the value of … inflation, increases the degree of anchoring of households' inflation expectations, and flattens the slope of the Phillips curve …

, could not only push up CPI inflation but also affect its volatility. Existing empirical literature has only found that … carbon pricing schemes are generally associated to a transitory effect on the level of inflation. This paper assesses … empirically the effects of carbon pricing on inflation volatility for both carbon tax and cap-and-trade schemes (also known as …

This paper reconsiders the narratives surrounding Japan's economic performance since the 1980s in relation to the … parallels. It is found that the poor reputation of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is, at times, underserved. To be sure, there were …

area (EA) and the US. The estimations show that until mid-2014 the ECB's response to inflation was more forceful when … inflation was above 2% than below 2%. Since then, the ECB's policy can be characterised as symmetric, and we quantify the … bound and a low neutral real rate, and find that it prescribes a stronger response to inflation and the output gap when …