economies. The paper finds that for four widely used measures of economic performance—growth, inflation, the fiscal balance, and …

This paper revisits the question of the real effects of inflation, on the basis of the experience with 23 high … inflation episodes in 17 countries. It finds strong indications that inflation had contractionary effects on a number of … important macroeconomic variables, such as GDP, investment and employment. Moreover, high inflation led to a significant decline …

output gap, and inflation in Chile, Korea, Mexico, and Turkey, using a generalized vector autoregression analysis. Nominal … historical wage shocks are shown to have an important effect on movements in inflation only in Mexico. Generalized impulse … reduction in output. Inflation increases in all countries, particularly Mexico. A positive shock to nominal money growth raises …

flexible prices. Second, under the optimal policy the volatility of non-tradable inflation is close to zero. Third, stabilizing … nontradable inflation is optimal regardless of the financial structure of the small open economy. Even for a moderate degree of …

inflation …

panel regressions, we find a negative relationship between legal central bank independence (CBI) and inflation. This result … holds for three alternative measures of CBI and after controlling for international inflation, banking crises, and exchange … fails, however, to find a causal relationship running from CBI to inflation …

. There is strong evidence of a positive and significant association between the pass-through and the average inflation rate … across countries and periods. The inflation rate, moreover, dominates other macroeconomic variables in explaining cross …

The paper estimates two time-varying parameter models of Chilean inflation: a Phillips curve model and a small open …; forecasts that include the pre-announced inflation target as a regressor are relatively better; the Phillips curve model …

This paper provides some empirical estimates on how tightly is it feasible to control inflation in a very small open … inflation and output variability that are achievable under a range of alternative monetary policy rules. These frontiers … illustrate that inflation stabilization is more challenging in Iceland than in other industrial countries primarily because of …

Spanish inflation. The domestic price gap turns out to be the major explanatory variable for inflation, even after the …