heterogeneous inflation expectations. Expectations are updated through social dynamics and, with heterogeneity, not all firms choose … to operate, putting downward pressure on realized inflation. Our model rationalizes why countries stuck at the zero lower … bound have had a hard time increasing inflation without being aggressive. The same model also predicts that announcing an …

I study the effect of the trending relative price of investment on the optimal target rate of inflation. The price of … optimal target rate of inflation in terms of the price of consumption. The Bayesian estimation of a dynamic general … of investment goods. The resulting optimal target rate of inflation is significantly positive with a median of 1 …

-specific output gaps and inflation rates, we find that performance of the optimal policy rule can be closely approximated by a very … simple rule that targets a weighted average of aggregate wage and price inflation rates. In contrast, some commonly …-prescribed policy rules (such as strict price inflation targeting and Taylor's rule) perform very poorly in terms of social welfare …

In recent years, activist monetary policy rules responding to inflation and the level of economic activity have been … advanced as a means of achieving effective output stabilization without inflation. Advocates of such policies suggest that … capacity as the primary underlying cause of the 1970s inflation and suggests that apparent differences in the framework …

a rationale for the practice of inflation zone targeting. We show that the presence of either zone-quadratic preferences … or a zone-linear relationship between inflation and economic activity provides strong incentives to deviate from … structure and relative preference towards economic stability in determining the width of the implied targeted inflation zone …

explain the persistence of inflation. However, both of these theories are inconsistent with the micro data on prices. In this … difference between the GTE and its popular alternatives in terms of inflation persistence, a difference arises when it comes to …

inflation (with base drift in the price level) and price-level stability (without such base drift) are compared, and a suitable … loss function (corresponding to flexible inflation targeting) is discussed, including the index and level for the inflation …) "forecast targeting," and (3) monetary targeting. Both (1) and (3) are found to be inferior to forecast targeting in maintaining …