We study the inflation-industrial growth nexus in India using the methodology of wavelets. More specifically, cross wavelet power spectrum, cross wavelet coherency, and wavelet phase angle, tools of Continuous Wavelet Transform are used to unravel time and frequency dependent relationships...

To conduct monetary policy, central banks around the world increasingly rely on measures of public inflation expectations. In this article, we review findings from an ongoing initiative at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York aimed at improving the measurement and our understanding of household...

The major overhaul of the national consumer prices index (NCPI), upon which the health index is based, is an opportunity to adjust the methodology to make inflation measurement more accurate and ensure that the index is representative. The new index will enter into force in January 2014. In...

The new national consumer price index (NCPI) on which the health index is based came into effect in January 2014. It underwent full revision, as it does every eight years. This brings to an end the significant obsolescence of the index, in which the weighting scheme increasingly failed to...

The aim of the study is to measure the effect of several economic variables on inflation in Syria, by using cointegration and causality tests as a method. The variables are specify depending on the economic literature that has treated this field. This study concludes that there is a long run...

This article underlines the restrictive perspective of the neo-keynesian research program of "microdoundations of unemployment", compared to the keynesian project of a general theory which would marginalize the classical cases. This neo-keynesian program has first restricted the interpretation...

The study is an empirical investigation of inflation convergence between CEFTA and EU countries. The question of both groups convergence as well as convergence of each individual countries within those groups is particularly discussed in the paper. Detailed analysis was carried out by use of...

This paper studies the Great Inflation in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Newspaper coverage and policymakers’ statements are used to analyze the views on the inflation process that led to the 1970s macroeconomic policies, and the different movement in each country away from 1970s views. I...

Inflationary processes are closely linked to wage-price spirals - such spirals can be triggered by many factors, including natural resource price shocks, depreciation and inflationary demand. Empirically, the correlation between changes in nominal unit labour costs and the price level is strong...

To mark the introduction, in January 2006, of a new national index of consumer prices (NICP) in Belgium and almost 10 years of application of the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP) at the European level, the article highlights recent methodological developments regarding the two...