, including house prices into the euro area price index stabilizes output at the cost of less stable goods inflation …

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 …

designed. At the time, the main concern of the Governing Council was to anchor inflation at low levels in face of the … low-inflation environment has created the concrete risk of de-anchoring of longer-term inflation expectations. Addressing … low inflation is different from addressing high inflation. The ability of the ECB (and central banks globally) to provide …

experiences of the U.S. and the Eurozone. There are important differences between these three economies and some striking …

Under inflation targeting inflation exhibits negative serial correlation in the United Kingdom, and little or no …, inflation appears to be (nearly) purely forward-looking, so that no mechanism introducing backward-looking components is … necessary to fit the data. These results question the notion that the intrinsic inflation persistence found in post-WWII U …

alternative monetary policy strategies. We start with the relationship between output and inflation and investigate the fit of the … reject the nominal contracting model in favor of the relative contracting model which induces more inflation persistence, we … in countries which transitioned out of a high inflation regime such as France and Italy. We close the model by estimating …

- to long-term deflation risk implied by year-on-year options on forward inflation swaps. We investigate whether long …-term inflation expectations have become de-anchored, by studying whether long-term deflation risk has been affected by changes in oil … prices and by short-term deflation risk. Our analysis suggests that the anchoring properties of euro area inflation …