This paper investigates the exchange rate responses to inflation in Bangladesh during the period from 1972-73 to 1999 …. Both annual and monthly data are used in the investigation. The results suggest that past consumer price inflation … effective exchange rate. The effect of inflation on devaluation, however, became weaker following the financial reforms …

This paper estimates an inflation function and forecasts one-year ahead inflation for Japan. It finds that (i) markup … (EqCM) of inflation; (ii) with intercept corrections, one-year ahead inflation forecast performance of the EqCM is good; and … obtained would serve for structural model-based inflation forecasting. It also highlights the importance of adjustment to a …

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 …

Sudanese inflation dramatically fell in 2000. But just prior to the sharp decline, an export ban was placed on Sudanese … value. In the long run, livestock exports are positively associated with nonfood inflation. In the short run, food price …

This paper reexamines the issue of the existence of threshold effects in the relationship between inflation and growth … inflation above which inflation significantly slows growth is estimated at 1–3 percent for industrial countries and 7–11 percent … for developing countries. The negative and significant relationship between inflation and growth, for inflation rates …

, robust measures of central tendency are likely to outperform the mean or standard measures of “core” inflation as indicators … of generalized inflation. The analysis also supports the use of geometric averaging in CPI construction and the targeting … of the geometric mean inflation rate rather than the Laspeyres mean …

Identifying determinants of the output-inflation tradeoff has long been a key issue in business cycle research. We … provide evidence that in countries with greater restrictions on capital mobility, a given reduction in the inflation rate is … Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions. Estimates of the output-inflation tradeoff are taken from previous studies, viz., Lucas …

implication of the model is a nonlinear relationship between the rate of inflation and the choice of regime for the next period … regime, followed by a gradual introduction of more flexibility as inflation subsides. A series of regressions on a sample of …

We analyse optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a New-Keynesian model with public debt and inflation persistence … striking result is not true with high degrees of inflation persistence. Secondly, we show that optimal fiscal policy is more … active under discretion than commitment at all degrees of inflation persistence and all levels of debt …

regarding the strength of international transmission of inflation. This paper uses a number of econometric techniques to assess … the extent of the link between inflation rates between China and the United States and Japan. It finds only limited … empirical evidence at the aggregate level for consumer price inflation in China leading to price changes in the United States …